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...took one look at the twelve-year-old's swing, declared him a natural. After that, Ham gave up baseball and settled down for a few tennis lessons himself. After five lessons, Bateman packed him off to Chicago to play in a "13-and-under" tournament; Ham was runnerup...
...Crimson sailors finished in last place in the Pentagonal race for the Jack Wood trophy on the Thames yesterday. The Coast Guard Academy upset runnerup MIT in capturing the trophy, while Brown and Dartmouth took third and fourth places...
Love's biggest pressagent was Fawcett Publications, already a big name in the pulps (True Confessions) and adventure comics (Captain Marvel, Tom Mix). Fawcett's Sweethearts was up to the 1,000,000 mark, and Fawcett's Life Story was runnerup with 700,000 readers. But almost everybody was doing it. At 10? a throw, America's girls & boys, aged 8 to 80, would soon have their pick of 100 love & romance books, published by two dozen different concerns, with an average press run of 500,000 copies. Said Fawcett's Helen Houghton last week...
...carefully and waiting for the word to step up the beat. Past the halfway point, when the cox called for power, Harvard went up to a beat of 36, then all the way up to 41. Tom Bolles's varsity swept ahead to win by open water over runnerup Penn. The time: 6:48.8. It was the varsity's fourth straight victory of the season, and the third year in a row for Tom Bolles & Co. in the Eastern sprint regatta. The others also got something to think about for 1950. Harvard's junior varsity and freshmen...
...Crimson jayvee heavies also won its race by two lengths, but the runnerup order this time was reversed, BU beating out the Engineers by half a length...