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...Saturday, however, with his total of 23 points. A wrenched knee suffered mid-way through the second half was all that kept his total from going much higher, though the injury wasn't serious enough to prevent his return for a devastating climax. Anderson's whirlwind drive under the basket typified the vastly superior speed of the Bulldog quintet--speed which should have insured a comfortable margin of victory but for Yale's poor shooting luck...

Author: By Monroe S. Singer, (SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON) | Title: Quintet, Swimmers Show Well Despite New Haven Setbacks | 3/13/1950 | See Source »

...game was one of the slowest of the year, aside from a whirlwind start to the second period when Jim O'Brien took a Walt-Greeley pass in front of the nets and scored in the 19th second of the stanza. The one-sided story is best told by a comparison of saves--24 for Ed Smith of Andover and 11 for Corning...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshmen Top Andover, 3-0 | 1/19/1950 | See Source »

What She Wants. Now atop the pinnacle for which she has yearned all her life, Carol Channing is thoroughly happy for perhaps the first time. Besides success, she also has a new husband, acquired after a whirlwind courtship in California. Alexander Carson is a big, good-natured bear of a man who spends his winters working as a private detective in New York and the football season playing center on Ottawa's professional team, the Rough Riders. The Murderous Ax, as he is known in his sporting circles, cares little about show business. He trails along patiently...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: The Wonderful Leveling Off | 1/9/1950 | See Source »

...knew better than Gonzalez how painful economic reforms could be. Four months ago students, protesting over an increase in bus fares, set off a bloody riot in Santiago. But his whirlwind stump tour had won Gonzalez enough political support to put over the plan. Now his problem would be to hold down prices firmly enough for the plan to work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHILE: The Mad Method | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

...total of donations soared to 315 pints yesterday as the Brooks House emergency blood drive committee wound up its three week whirlwind campaign...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Full-Blooded Lass Gives on Last Day | 11/10/1949 | See Source »

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