Word: winter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...skyscraper of a man named Gerry Glynn will provide the Crimson dribble set with its most challenging problems. Measuring barely short of seven feet with his hair combed, Glynn has averaged 17 points per game this winter, and is a formidable obstacle in all rebounding...
Doubtless, much will depend on the performance of Harrington, who currently is the second most proficient scorer in the Ivy League. Harrington had a brilliant season as a sophomore, but fell off badly last year, due to illness. Restored to health once again this winter, he started slowly, but in the three or four games immediately preceding exams, began to show his old-time form...
Before the doors of Manhattan's Coliseum, thousands of boating enthusiasts queued up for two blocks in a winter rain last week for the opening of the 49th National Motor Boat Show. Eying the crowd's ardor and remembering the sales figures from last year, exhibitors glowed with optimism. Despite the recession, Americans spent a record $2.1 billion on boating in 1958, and the nation's fun fleet grew to 7,330,000 boats-one for every seven families. With the number of active U.S. yachtsmen expanding by 2,000,000 a year (total: 37 million...
...Hamilton Eraser's Morning Star offers at least a tenuous contact with nature: it seems to represent the crumpled ghost of a sailing ship plowing icy seas into the dawn. Michael Goldberg's Summer House looks more like a frost-adorned window in the dead of a winter night, reflecting firelight against the dark outside...
...moneyed U.S. consumer who performed so nobly in 1958 will buy even more heavily this year. So predict the retailers who sell and the manufacturers who make the goods. At Chicago's annual winter home-furnishing and appliance show last week, 45,000 buyers, salesmen and manufacturers from 11,483 firms started writing orders for the new year and swapping predictions about the future. Consensus: with the economy very definitely on the upbeat, U.S. retail sales in 1959 should post a banner year. Said one Washington discounter, who ordered $1,000,000 worth of goods and reports...