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...final against Seton Hall, St. John's just ran out of zing. Dukes, galloping up & down the court, dropping in hooks with either hand, passing off to teammates on scoring plays and gathering rebounds off both backboards, put on a one-man show. He scored 21 points (high for the game), and won the tournament's most-valuable-player trophy, as Seton Hall won handily, 58-46. The big man on everybody's All-America team, Dukes reportedly has his choice of signing with the professional National Basketball Association for $10,000 or the famed Harlem Globetrotters...
Harry Truman's personal zip was still there, but suddenly the political zing was gone. His bearing was jaunty and his socks and ties were still as carefully matched as ever. He could still snap a decision, find time for a handshake with an old friend, or smile cheerfully for photographers at the inescapable White House ceremonials. But the truth was that Harry Truman, for the first time in anybody's memory, was just plain bored...
...paragon of Broadway show producers. When he is not putting on one smash hit after another and showing his leading men how to sing songs and make love to the leading lady (Jane Wyman), he is throwing gay first-night penthouse parties, where he croons such ditties as Zing a Little Zong. But Widower Bing is so busy being famous that he is a flop with his teen-age children. His daughter (Natalie Wood) winds up in jail with her drunken governess. His adolescent son (Robert Arthur) resents Bing's critical attitude toward his songwriting attempts, and tries...
Harvard has been making steady progress since its initial race against Tech two weeks ago, according to Love. "The men showed more zing against Princeton than Tech," he said, "and I expect them to be stronger this week." Because of bad weather conditions, there have been no conclusive set in trials. Love has made no change in his varsity since last week...
...operettas, including The Student Prince (which once had nine road companies going simultaneously), The Desert Song, Blossom Time and The New Moon. His lush, middlebrow tunes ranged from rousing ballads (StoutHearted Men) to glowing sentiment (When I Grow Too Old to Dream) to this year's jukebox favorite Zing Zing, Zoom Zoom, but the standard favorites were the coyly romantic Wanting You, Lover Come Back to Me and One Kiss...