Word: winners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With that, the curtain rolled down on 1948's collegiate basketball season, leaving Kentucky out front, taking bows as team-of-the-year (N.C.A.A. champions are usually so acknowledged). There was angry buzzing in the wings. Some experts thought that St. Louis University, winner of the rival National Invitation Tournament (TIME, March 29) had the better team. The question might have been decided in this week's Olympic basketball trials. But the Jesuit Fathers at St. Louis U. quietly announced that the team was through for the season: it was high time for the boys to get back...
...year-old Chicago cook named Dick Guerrero forgot to duck in the second round and was knocked clear out of the ring. Guerrero climbed back in, talked the referee out of stopping the fight. He then battled his way to the Golden Gloves welterweight championship. The heavyweight winner: 20-year-old Coley Wallace of Harlem, who looks like Joe Louis but doesn't fight as well; he was booed after winning...
...extent that she falls for the 'line' she is a loser in this intricate game; but if she discourages her partner so much that he does not request a subsequent 'date' in the near future she is equally a loser. To remain the winner, she must make the nicest discriminations between yielding and rigidity...
...Barker (29), the first Maugham Award winner, is no experimental stylist. And even "elderly" Evelyn Waugh (44) might have had a hard time getting the prize away from a book of short stories as original and good as her Innocents...
Three-meter dive: Won by Heston (Yale); second, Fergusan (Yale); third, Drohan (Harvard); fourth, Flynn (Rutgers); fifth, Frazler (Penn.); sixth, Sevilia (Springfield). Winner's points...