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...publicity men snagged newspaper space by calling Prizewinner Robertson a cowboy-composer. Actually, though Robertson did herd sheep in Utah as a boy, he is a music professor at Brigham Young University, and winner of the New York Music Critics' Circle award in 1944 for a string quartet. He had not even entered Reichhold's contest: he sent the score, signed "Nostrebor" (his name spelled backwards) to his New York publisher, who entered it without Robertson's knowledge...
Despite 10 returning lettermen, Combes finds himself in somewhat of a spot, since the first-string Whiz Kids allowed other members of the squad little time to work as a unit. In addition to the six-feet, seven-inch center Green, Combes is building his team around captain-guard Jack Burmaster, an excellent playmaker, and Dwight "Dike" Eddleman, the famed all-around star of three sports, football, basketball, and track...
After tonight's game, the players will disperse for the Christmas holidays, to reassemble December 27 in Chicago, when it is hoped that wingman Bob Feloney and goalie Bill Yetman will rejoin the group. This currently ailing duo played in first or second-string capacities for the Varsity last winter...
Almost everyone agreed that Jan. 17 would be a poor time to open the Inter-American Conference at Bogotá (TIME, Nov. 17). The U.S. would be deeply involved in Marshall-Planning; its first-string team of diplomats, Senators and Congressmen would be too busy with Europe to think about Latin America. Latin Americans wanted to be sure that their pleas for economic aid would be heard by the right ears. Besides, the diplomats still had a lot to do before they were ready for the conference business of strengthening the hemisphere system...
...like it or not, the trade was forced to string along with a Chicago barkeep: "You gotta have it whether you want to or not . . . or you start holding hands with yourself...