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...Madison Square Garden's polished floor. Their coach, heavy-jowled Adolph Rupp, hadn't even bothered to get a scouting report on the enemy team. Kentucky was dangerously cocky-with the N.C.A.A. championship hinging on the game. And before anybody had a chance to work up a sweat, Kentucky had scored 13 points to Baylor's one. There just wasn't anything that Baylor could do about 6 ft. 7 in. Alex ("The Nose") Groza, Kentucky's star center, whose head seems to threaten the mezzanine. He sucked in rebounds like a vacuum cleaner...
...denudement occurred last week when a hundred pairs of rowing trunks and sweat shirts burned in a fire at the Bob Cook boathouse in Derby, Connecticut...
...music smoothly as it proceeded from section to section of the orchestra. It caught some remarkably candid glimpses of the maestro that concertgoers never see: Toscanini's glittering eyes, flashing eloquent messages to his musicians; his triumphant roar in the midst of a Wagnerian crescendo; the beads of sweat, glistening on his brow...
...there is much in Communism that must be adopted through Christian charity," cried Lombardi. He reproved the crowd for their demonstration and clambered down, his pale face shiny with sweat...
...costumed duel-to-the-death in which "the two antagonists lock wrists . . . their sweat-drenched faces only an inch apart . . . and swap talk: 'Norman dog! Anglo-Saxon lilies will grow over thy bones ere yon sun sets...