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...James Naismith, who invented basketball in 1891 by tacking up two old peach baskets in a Springfield, Mass., gym, once said that he preferred lacrosse. Naismith would have changed his mind if he could have seen a game like the one played last week between the New York Knicks and the Los Angeles Lakers...
Basketball, as everybody knows, is a noncontact sport. At least that's what Dr. James Naismith had in mind when he invented the game in 1891. An "enjoyable form of recreation for mature individuals," he called it, and to keep it cool he specified that "no shouldering, holding, pushing, tripping, or striking, in any way, the person of an opponent shall be allowed." But Naismith figured without the pros-and particularly without the Boston Celtics, who won the National Basketball Association championship last week by trouncing the San Francisco Warriors in the roughest five games of basketball that memory...
...would have you know that Laurence Naismith's beard, which you imply is false, is real, real, real! How do I know? I pulled it hard at a dinner party when he was in this country with the English company that presented us with School for Scandal...
...TIME said that Naismith had a Monty Woolley beard, and that was real Woolley...
Decked out in a Monty Woolley beard, Naismith makes a capital Santa, and Janis Paige is a delectable if ungay divorcee. Stevens, in a lackluster Broadway debut, seems to be one of those staglets whose careers consist of looking vaguely like Gary Grant. The cast's efforts may not be totally in vain. As one departing first-nighter put it: "Well, at least it's a reminder to do Christmas shopping early this year...