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Vermont--North Troy, Jay Peak, fair to good; Stowe, Mount Mansfield, four trails and slopes open and fair to good, Spruce Peak area closed; Wilmington, Mount Snow, no skiing upper, poor to fair lower, fair to good on lower Overbrook...
Feel & Touch. While Wilt was still a student at Philadelphia's Overbrook High School, at least 140 different colleges shared Phog's high opinion of him. They offered Wilt the world-tuition, cars, free air travel home on weekends-but Phog outfoxed them all. After peddling Kansas' virtues to Wilt and his coach, he turned his charm on Wilt's mother ("Mrs. Chamberlain, now I see why Wilt is such a nice...
...Overbrook's ablest current wrestlers are the Marcucci brothers, Raymond and George, identical twins who were born blind 16 years ago. George is national blind champion at the 50-yd. dash. Raymond is national blind champion at basketball throwing. Both are talented woodworkers. Last week both won their matches, George in 5 min. 5 sec., his brother in 20 seconds less...
...Twitching muscles betray the grip an opponent intends, permit a blind wrestler to break it before it is completed. Broken arms and ribs among blind wrestlers are no more common than among their non-blind confreres. Curious foibles are no less rare. In last week's match, Overbrook's opponent, the New York Institute for the Education of the Blind, had to use a substitute against Overbrook's star, Philip Tuso, because Philadelphia's white blind wrestlers do not like to compete with blind wrestlers who are Negroes...
There are no blind professional wrestlers but at least one of Overbrook's graduates is able enough to consider such a career. He, Robert Allman, who left Overbrook in 1934, is currently a sophomore at the University of Pennsylvania, where he studies in Braille, wrestles as a regular member of the team. Last week while Navy wrestlers were beating Penn, 23-to-3, Wrestler Allman lost his match to Navy's Charles Chandler but his display of defensive technique was so impressive that 4,000 spectators cheered him throughout the bout, gave him an ovation when it ended...