Word: brightest
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...scored an average of 29 points a game, led Muncie's Central High to the finals of the state championships, and headed an Indiana All-Star team that trounced the Kentucky All-Stars, 101-64. Indiana coaches and sportswriters voted him "Mr. Basketball," touted him as the brightest college prospect to come out of the Hoosier State since the great Oscar ("Big O") Robertson (TIME cover, Feb. 17). Deluged with scholarship offers, Bonham packed off to home-state Purdue. He stayed just three days ("I decided that four years is a long time to be unhappy"), went home...
...Halfback Mike Fracchia (6 ft. 1 in., 186 lbs.) came from Memphis, Tenn., because "I wanted to play on a good team and I knew Coach Bryant was going to turn one out." Among Bryant's first batch of hand-picked recruits were two of Alabama's brightest stars: Quarterback Pat Trammell and Tackle Billy Neighbors- both strong candidates for All-America and standout pro prospects. An A student in predentistry, rangy (6 ft. 2 in., 193 Ibs.) Quarterback Trammell is a bruising runner whose accurate passing (54 completions in 93 attempts, only two interceptions) has even surprised...
This is without a doubt one of the brightest and most encouraging years in the history of the Harvard Rugby Club...
...cope with their problems, Estes and Gerrity have tapped some of the Air Force's brightest colonels for the project. In air combat lingo, enemy airplanes are dubbed "bandits"; today at Inglewood, the term applies to unsolved construction problems. Every bandit that appears is handed to one of Estes' colonels. That officer is known as the "it" colonel-and he stays "it" until he finds a solution, which had better not be very long. Says one colonel: "If you're 'it' and you've been 'it' for a few days...
This seemingly suicidal pricing policy is part of a formula that, in practice, has given the 43-year-old Zenith Radio Corp. one of the brightest pictures of any radio-TV manufacturer. During the 1957-59 shake-out in the overcrowded TV-equipment industry, many companies cut prices and skimped on quality. Zenith, instead, kept both quality and prices high and, in the process, nudged RCA aside to become the nation's biggest maker of TV sets. In 1956, before the great shake-out began, Zenith's sales were $141,500,000, its profits $6,200,000. Last...