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...back in the U.S. to mend an arm injury that he got in Korea. You may remember some of Bell's stories since he joined our Chicago staff in 1942. His account of the 1947 Centralia Mine disaster is still the model for young correspondents on Mid-West assignments. Among the cover stories for which he supplied background: Harold Stassen (1947), FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover (1949), Frank Costello (1949), and Charles E. Wilson (1951). In his work as a war correspondent, Bell's "Battle of No Name Ridge" was one of the most gripping stories to come...
During the Christmas vacation one basketball team traveled to the Mid-West to play two teams better than it and two teams worse. As expected, it lost to the better teams--Bradley and Washington of St. Louis--but it also lost to Denison, an inferior squad. The Crimson managed to beat only Chicago University...
...British team has been in America eight weeks, and has appeared at 35 colleges and universities in the East and Mid-West for debates and discussions...
...Debate Council is the current Ivy League champion, and holds the New York-New England Regional Championship. The British team has been showers in a nation-wide contest to debate colleges throughout the United States, and has just completed a tour of the Mid-west...
...sailors qualified by placing second in the New England Fall Championships for the Schell Trophy. They will race against the top teams from the Atlantic Coast area, the Mid-West, and Now England...