Word: hometown
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They will have to prove their claim to the national championship a fortnight hence, at the intersectional N.C.A.A. tournament in their hometown Garden. Chief threat (if invited): Oklahoma A. & M., champs of the Missouri Valley, coached by stern Hank Iba, whose players call him "Sir." A. & M.'s crack team (which has lost only two games) is paced by 7-ft., high-scoring (58 points in one game) Bob Kurland, whose "dunk shot" is thrown down through the hoop, not up to it. Another contender: Ohio State, the Big Ten victor (won 14, lost...
...first starveling years, while Silverman feuded with the powerful theatrical houses of Shubert and Albee, actors shied away from his columns (if they bought space, they might get fired). But in dingy dressing rooms and rocking tourist sleepers, Variety became the hometown paper of every vaudevillager whose slanguage it spoke. Sime Silverman kept it a jump ahead of the sheriff and ahead of the times, managed to shift its accent to the movies long before vaudeville died...
...hometown again, the amateur company immediately put on three sellout performances ($1.25 top) in the municipal Playhouse Theater. Director Gweneth Lloyd, energetic Englishwoman who founded the Winnipeg Ballet in 1938, had three new productions in her repertory: Les Coryphées, inspired by Degas' paintings and set to Tchaikovsky music; Kaleidoscope, a suite of national dances; and Dionysos, a mythological affair. Like 15 other Lloyd ballets, including An American in Paris from the Gershwin score, these were choreographic originals...
...creates such a disturbance"), he stayed home and read the Sunday papers. Then he drove back to Grandview, and at the little airport said goodbye to his family. Reaching up to kiss him, his mother got in a final word: "You be good, but be game, too." The hometown weekend was over...
King Farouk, touched by a story in a Cairo newspaper, did his bit toward a serviceman's rehabilitation. The story: Scottish sapper David Bell, sightless and handless since a booby-trap explosion near El Alamein in 1942, hoped to start life anew with a tobacco shop in his hometown, Edinburgh. Farouk's bit: he sent Bell 25,000 choice Egyptian cigarets with which to set up shop...