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...John's University basketball team, in the upset of the year, over Kentucky, 64-57; at Raleigh, N.C. The victory put underdog St. John's in this week's N.C.A.A.-championship semifinals. Other regional winners: Big Ten Champion Illinois over Duquesne, 74-68; Big Seven Champion Kansas over St. Louis, 74-55; Santa Clara over Skyline Champion Wyoming...
...Miles Away. The men close to Taft apparently did not sense the voter resistance. When the tour ended, F. E. ("Ted") Johnston, who had headed the Senator's efficient, professional New Hampshire organization, dropped the carefully cultivated underdog role and made a prediction: Taft would win the preferential primary by 5,000 votes, and six of the 14 delegates...
...nervous breakdown. He feared he was going mad-"But if I am . . ." he assured a friend, "I might as well do it with a certain amount of chic." Instead of going mad. he took the more dangerous course of hunting up a new cause, which he found in the "underdog" condition of the British proletariat. "In the old pacifist days I wanted to blow up the War Office . . . Under the ... Oxford Group I wanted to drag people to church by the scruff of their necks, and now ... I felt like marching through Claridge's with a banner proclaiming...
Since 1936, no Crimson varsity wrestling team has been able to defeat Yale. Coach Bob Pickett has lost one meet to Yale so far, but when his underdog squad meets the Elis at 4 p.m. today in the Blockhouse he thinks an upset could be within striking distance...
...underdog squash team gained a tie for the Intercollegiate League championship Saturday at New Haven by trouncing the previously undefeated Crimson...