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...biggest freshman of them all, Wilton Chamberlain (7 ft. 2 in., 230 Ibs.), dunk in 42 points all by himself. In 39 years of talking tall young men into coming to Kansas for their higher education, Phog Allen has never recruited a more promising student of basketball than "Wilt the Stilt...
Feel & Touch. While Wilt was still a student at Philadelphia's Overbrook High School, at least 140 different colleges shared Phog's high opinion of him. They offered Wilt the world-tuition, cars, free air travel home on weekends-but Phog outfoxed them all. After peddling Kansas' virtues to Wilt and his coach, he turned his charm on Wilt's mother ("Mrs. Chamberlain, now I see why Wilt is such a nice...
...Negro Concert Singer Etta Moten, a Kansas alumna, who wrote to the Chamberlains, 2) Dowdal H. Davis, general manager of a Kansas City Negro weekly, who flew east to make his pitch, 3) Professor Calvin Vanderwerf, of K.U.'s chemistry department, who passed through Philadelphia and called on Wilt's mother. Said Mrs. Chamberlain: "We've had many colleges speak to us about Wilton, but you're the first one who was a professor. I'm so happy to have someone talk about the academic side." By the end of May, Phog Allen...
...second half was to be almost all Cornell's, as the weary Crimson line, substituting very infrequently, began to wilt under the pressure of the line smashes of Jackson and Bo Roberson. But at the start of the thrid quarter, the varsity was still in the game...
...physicists operate the Southeast's first 4,000,000-volt Van de Graaff nuclear accelerator. Its engineers developed an infra-red drying process for the South's textile industry, and its botanists have helped lead the fight against such tobacco plant diseases as blue mold and Granville wilt. Duke scientists established a worldwide registry for fungus diseases, successfully used the rice diet for high blood pressure, worked on every type of research from new techniques in plastic surgery to a vaccine for equine encephalitis...