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Varsity basketball Coach Norm Shepard expects no recurrence tonight of the first-half fitters which have plagued his undefeated team this season. The varsity will meet a weak Wesleyan College squad at Middletown. Connecticut, after a preliminary 7 p.m. game between the Wesleyan and Crimson freshmen, in which the Yardlings will be looking for their second victory in three contests...
...stretching its undefeated record to two games, the varsity again demonstrated a surprising first-half unsteadiness, much as they did against M.I.T. a week ago. With the shorter Brown players controlling most of the rebounds, coach Norm Shepard had to begin playing both of his big men, Ed Blodnick and Dick Lionette, at the same time, and it wasn't until the second half that they began teaming up to work the boards effectively...
...most versatile exhibitions of passing, running, blocking and kicking ever seen, Kazmaier put on a dazzling one-man show that turned a tight first-half game into a second-half rout. He threw 17 passes, all on the run, and completed an astonishing 15 for a total of 236 yards. He carried the ball 18 times and averaged 7 yards a crack. He personally accounted for 70% of Princeton's gains. He threw three touchdown passes, ran for two more (and added two points for Cornell on a second-half safety). And, when the devastating Princeton offense was slowed...
...industry's billion-dollar sales league (TIME, May 7) has included no rubber company. Last week Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. qualified on the basis of its first-half sales of $544,642,341, the biggest in its history. Goodyear also chalked up an alltime record net of $20,685,820 after taxes, a gain of 73% over IO'S first half...
...some good news about one of his biggest enterprises: Philippine Air Lines, which he runs as junior partner (28% owner) with the government (52%). Deep in the red two years ago, P.A.L. broke into the black last year with a $350,000 profit, this year chalked up a first-half net of $636,000, 33 times as much as in the same 1950 period. Next to giant Pan Am, it is now the most profitable international airline in the world. It has 43 planes, routes from Manila over two-thirds of the globe to the Far East, Spain, England...