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Before dinner, Bob Kleberg, slicked up in his whipcord pants but still wearing fancy high-heeled boots, likes to stride up & down the living room with a bourbon old-fashioned in his hand and give his expert opinion on everything from horses, cattle, politics, bourbon to how high the hawk flies. By means of a telephone on a 30-ft. extension, he is able to sandwich in long-distance business calls as he walks...
Tufts, one of New England's pre-war basketball powers, is just regaining its stride, interrupted because it had no armed service officer training program. Two returnees, forward Spud Shapiro, holder of Tuft's scoring record, and guard Al Perry, are currently sparking the Jumbo five, which so far has defeated Devens but lot to Holy Cross in two starts. Probable Starting Lineups HARVARD TUFTS Brady RF Shapiro Davis LF Travis Hauptfuhrer C Brault Gannon RG Cooney Henry LG Perry
Tufts, of course, takes these informal meets as if seasonal success rides with every stride, and the Boston papers generally add up the points. Informal meets, however, are not entered in the official Crimson track records...
...pieces of the Gargantuan magnet for the new cyclotron arrived in Cambridge yesterday, nuclear research at the University took a seven-league-booted stride...
...Jack Dempsey, with whom he competed for headlines, Big Red had color. His post manners, in the days before starting gates, were atrocious. He liked to rear up on his hind legs and terrify the jockey with his lunging and plunging. But when Red settled down to his tremendous stride (once measured at 24 ft.), he broke track records, and the hearts of ordinary horses foolish enough to race against him. A bargain horse (he cost $5,000), Man o' War won 20 of his 21 starts in his two years of racing...