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...then got off shots whirring with English that flicked wickedly off the backboard and into the basket. When the need arose, he simply used his football lineman's build (6 ft. 5 in., 235 Ibs.) to overpower any player foolish enough to block his path. In the first quarter alone, Elgin Baylor, 25, Negro star of the National Basketball Association's Los Angeles Lakers, scored 15 points against the hapless New York Knicks. At half time, he had 34. By the third quarter he was up to 47, and even the most jaded fan hidden back...
...college football's top games of the week: Sophomore Halfback Bert Coan scored two second-half touchdowns to lead Kansas to a 23-7 upset of previously undefeated Missouri, the nation's top-ranked team. The surprise victory gave the Kansas Jayhawkers their first Big Eight championship since 1930. Determined Minnesota rammed across two touchdowns in the fourth period to sew up a 26-7 win over Wisconsin and tie Iowa for the Big Ten title...
...Bald, bitterly competitive Dick Groat, 30, shortstop and captain of the Pittsburgh Pirates, was voted the National League's most valuable player for leading the league in hitting (.325) and providing the spark that fired his team to its first pennant since 1927 and a World Series victory over the Yankees...
...equally happy meeting of food, drink and the classics occurs every Sunday afternoon in New Haven, Conn., at a nightclub known as the Playback, which attracts fans like Author Thornton Wilder, Diplomat Chester Bowles and Composer Quincy Porter to hear serious music spiked with first-rate jazz. Playback is the plaything of Willie Ruff and Dwike Mitchell, the two jazzmen who touched off a modest international incident last year when they introduced cheering Russian audiences to the intricacies of the Cool. Equally at home in jazz and classical music (Ruff has a master's degree in music from Yale...
Under the Yum-Yum Tree (by Lawrence Roman) is the sort of light sex comedy that a critic can't come down on too heavily. One wrinkle to its romance is that, though boy wants to marry, girl thinks they should first live together platonically. The other wrinkle is Hogan, the landlord across the hall, a bachelor with a knack for getting into people's hair and ladies' bedrooms. Out of this new-style ménage á troïs come three acts of calculated on-the-brinkmanship and technically innocent shenanigans...