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...foot, 5 inch Law student's tremendous reach gave him almost complete control of the court, and his widely varied game, combining great power with deft touch, kept Place from ever getting set. The Crimson player contested every point, however, and the match was much closer than the score indicated...
...addition to these elite, several sophomore Whiz Kids blossomed out to join the ranks of the heroic. John deKiewiet was unbeaten all year in the high jump. Consistently around six feet, two inches, he appears sure bet to erase the one blot on Harvard's glorious escutcheon--a feeble 6 feet 31/2 inch high jump record...
...basketball court. Off in one niche among the sets, Comedienne Alice Ghostley, one of the mean stepsisters, inadvertently pulled a lavender drape down about her head. "Who in hell moved the curtains?" the prop man screeched from across the room. The sets towered up to within an inch of the overhead pipes and lights. "The street scene is this shape because the studio is this shape." said Designer Bill Eckart. He was worried: "I don't know what we'll do about Cinderella's coach and horses. I guess we'll have to film them, because...
Nevertheless, It Moves ... In Hurst Green, Sussex, England, Policeman Ronald Marshall halted a prewar pickup truck, noted grass growing on one running board, an inch-long piece of metal in one tire, a triple-layer canvas patch on another, was assured by the driver, "I think the guv'nor is going to take it off the road soon...
...book called Silent Spokesman, by Wayland W. Lessing, a Chicago welfare worker. By pointing at the book's pictures and diagrams a patient can flash, among other messages, what friends he wants to see, where he has pain, and such complicated thoughts as: "I want a 21-inch television set." Cost of the book...