Word: toasted
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Four years ago, the small Jesuit school in the Pacific Northwest was not even a minor-league basketball power. Seattle University's team played in its own small gymnasium against obscure junior college teams, rarely rated a line outside the local papers. This year the team is the toast of Seattle, nationally ranked (16th) and a top-drawer drawing card in basketball from coast to coast. There are two good reasons for Seattle's sudden upsurge in popularity and prestige: Johnny O'Brien, the nation's alltime scoring champion (TIME, Jan. 5), and his twin brother...
...statement was the traditional function of the President and not the President-elect. But the news microphones were there as Ike emerged. Cheerily waving his brown felt hat, he wished a "Happy New Year to everybody everywhere." Then he was off to a holiday with his family, a champagne toast to see the New Year in, and a quiet Jan. 1, enlivened by the chatter of his grandchildren romping and rolling up a snowman in the yard of the Columbia University residence...
...Toast of the Town (Sun. 8 p.m., CBS). Robert Taylor's first TV appearance...
...table a large silver urn, the gift of Coolidge. The salt is no personal eccentricity of Perkins'; it takes the place of wine at High Table. With local liquor reguations what they are, the Houses are forbidden to serve alcoholic beverages, and thus instead of offering up a toast in wine, the High Table guest dips into the salt...
...Toast of the Town (Sun. 8 p.m., CBS). Ed Sullivan, with Billy Eckstine, Bobby Clark...