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...lead. But when Harvard's shuffle offense bogged down and Sedlacek couldn't get free to take any shots, the Crimson's lead shrunk. No one else on the team was shooting well from outside. Several long jump shots by Weitzman and superb playmaking by 5-7 Jim McNaught enabled Northeastern to tie the score at 29 all at halftime...
Harvard's guards regained their composure and their usual steady ball handling, and sophomore second stringer Bob Beller put the Crimson in front with a jumper from the corner. Weitzman tied it with a 15-footer. Williams was fouled and calmly sank two free throws, but McNaught countered with a 25-foot swishing jump shot, as the clock showed 40 seconds. That set the stage for the last-minute drama...
...main obstacle Harvard will face is a pair of sharpshooting Huskie guards. Jim McNaught and Rick Weitzman...
...McNaught, a Lilliputian 5-7 junior, scored 27 points in Northeastern's $4-67 victory over Bates Saturday. He fired in 10 of 14 shots, most of them long jumpers, and was seven for eight from the foul line. Weitzman (6-2) scored 16 points, hitting seven for ten from the floor...
Died. Virgil Venice McNitt, 83, publisher, who in 1922, with Charles Mc-Adam, founded the McNaught Syndicate, a newspaper feature service named after McNitt's Scottish ancestors, soon hit it rich by selling the homespun aphorisms of Will Rogers to 700 U.S. dailies, went on to establish such other favorites as Dale Carnegie and Joe Palooka; of cancer; in Southbridge, Mass. Still going strong in 1,000 newspapers under McAdam, 72, the syndicate now features, besides tireless Joe, the Flintstones, Dixie Dugan, Mickey Finn, and Abigail ("Dear Abby") Van Buren...