Wildcats Lead NCA A Scoring as Kentucky Rolls
Kentucky’s speedy Wildcats, ranked No. 1, top major college teams with an 85.8 points per game average after five games. Princeton Syracuse Duke follow, while Kentucky also holds a strong 30 point per game offensive margin. Defensive stats show Penn State 44.3 points per game allowed, with Navy 47.4 ninth in the nation.
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New York
Kentucky
Wildcats
Blue Grass
National Collegiate Athletic Bureau
Princeton
Syracuse
Duke
Cincinnati
Western Kentucky
Houston
Penn State
Oklahoma A & M
Maryland
Missouri
Texas A & M
Navy
Illinois Stanford In Good Condition Ahead Of Rose Bowl
In Pasadena on December 27 2 the Illinois and Stanford football teams reported good physical condition ahead of the Rose Bowl on New Year's Day. Illinois coach Ray Eliot criticized a secret scrimmage calling it pitiful and said timing was non existent while Stanford coach Chuck Taylor expressed confidence the Indians would be in as good shape as the year. Illinois end coach Bob King affirmed squad reconditioning was satisfactory though several players including Bob Mathias might skip rough drills later in the week.
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Pasadena
Calif
Ilinois
Stanford
Illinois
Ray Eliot
Eliot
Indians
Chuck Taylor
Bob King
Taylor
King
Bob Mathias
Il- Modis
Eachecnach
Local Bowling Standings and Life Saving Classes
Bowling league results list Machinists Patternmakers and Molders atop the table with weekly statistics led by Eyler from the Cleaners in high scores. Separate items note life saving classes at Hood College, plus obituaries for Monte Irvin and football player Jerry O Connell, and a geographic fact about Crater Lake’s diameter.
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B. Pet
Eyler
Columbia Beats Duke in Dixie Classic Opener
Columbia burns Duke 66-38 in Reynolds Coliseum as Duke rallies late. Co captains Paul Brandt with 24 and Dick Groat held to 3 first half while Bill Kukoy leads NC State with 28 in its 71-51 win over Navy. Maryland, North Carolina, and Cornell also win. semifinals set for tomorrow.
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Raleigh
N. C. Dee
Columbia
Duke
Blue Devils
Reynolds Coliseum
North Carolina
Southern California
North Carolina State
Navy
Cornell
Wake Forest
Dick Groat
Paul Brandt
Bill Kukoy
Clemson Tigers Bring 18000 Fans To Gator Bowl
Clemson College plans to send its football team to Jacksonville for the Gator Bowl on New Year’s Day and a similar number of supporters will follow. Coach Frank Howard leads the Tigers aiming for a bowl win over Miami after last year’s Orange Bowl win by South Carolina College. arrivals by chartered plane expected early Friday. hotels and tourist facilities booked solid for weeks as the Gator Bowl anticipates a record crowd surpassing 38,000.
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Fla
Clemson College
Clemson
Miami
South Carolina College
Frank Howard
Tigers
Ponte Vedra Beach
Missouri
Delaware Park seeks May to July racing dates
Wilmington Delaware December 27 Delaw are Park has applied to the Delaware Racing Commission for its traditional dates beginning May 29 1952 and continuing to July 5 Bryan Field vice president and general manager said the request has generally been granted in past years due to having the only track in the state The move signals another season kickoff at Dover area racetrack
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Del
Delaware Park
Delaware Racing Commission
Bryan Field
Delaware
Radio Schedule Highlights from WFMD and NBC Networks
A fragmented listing shows a dense radio timetable with programs across networks NBC DuMont and CBS. Items include news, commentary talk shows, variety, dramas such as Lone Ranger and One Man’s Family, sports, the Jack Smith Show, Ozzie and Harriet, and Night Beat, plus many hour and half hour slots and station identifiers like WFMD WMAL WRAL and CBS. The schedule features daytime to late evening segments and multiple entertainment programs interspersed with news and sports bulletins.
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Abe-Mbr East Kiddies
Ntbs-Weat
Cbs
Nbe
Nbe News Brosdoaat
Cba
Nbo Baulah
Obs News & Commentary
Ano News
Mbs
Jack Smith
Cbe
Aba
Abo
Abe
Nbo
Evaning
Hroy Rogars
Abe Masteland
U.s.a
Richard Dismond
Nbo Capitol
Ezio Pinza
DuMont
Pappie
Stu Erwin
Playhouse of
Father
Henry Aldrich
Dhs Cavalcade of Stars
Che
Tennessee Seen As Favorite In Sugar Bowl Clash
Richmond report cites Washington and Lee and North Carolina players backing Tennessee over Maryland in the Sugar Bowl. Quotations note Maryland’s strength but favor Tennessee, with prior results listed: Maryland beat W and L 54 14 and UNC 14 7. Tennessee beat W and L 60 14 and UNC 27 0.
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Richmond
Tennessee
Maryland
Washington and Lee
University of North Carolina
Laurence Leonard
Richmond News Leader
George Barclay
Leonard
North Carolina
Joe Dudeck
Streetcar Named Desire Tops Best 1951 Film Critics List
New York critics select Streetcar Named Desire as best picture of 1951 with The River as close runner up. Elia Kazan named best director for Streetcar. Arthur Kennedy and Vivien Leigh win acting honors. Miracle in Milan wins foreign film. 65 million acres freed from feed production by farm machinery.
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New York
Elia Kazan
George Stevens
Arthur Kennedy
Marion Brando
Vivien Leigh
Shelley Winters
Milan
Rashomon
Missing Frederick High School boy prompts police notice
Maryland State Police issued a missing-person notice for 15-year-old Richard Lee Brown of Frederick after he left Wednesday morning to deposit a bank errand for his father and did not return by 11 p.m. He is 5 feet 7 inches, about 140 pounds, blue eyes and curly blond hair, wearing an old grey suit when last seen.
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Maryland
Frederick High School
Richard Lee Brown
East Church Street
Howard G. Brown
Carrie Rice
Hamilton Avenue
John Wayne Tops Film Money Makers of 1951
Hollywood reports John Wayne remains the industry’s leading money maker for 1951, topping the Motion Picture Herald poll of theater owners. Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis rise to second, with Bob Hope slipping, and Betty Grable, Abbott and Costello, Randolph Scott, Gary Cooper, Doris Day, and Spencer Tracy completing the top ten.
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Hollywood
Der
John Wayne
Motion Picture Herald
Wayne
Dean Martin
Jerry Lewis
Bob Hope
Patl Hope
Bing Crosby
Crosby
Hope
Betty Grable
Abbott and Costello
Randolph Scott
Gary Cooper
Doris Day
Spencer Tracy
Trooper Hammersmith Leaves Force in Maryland Police
Maryland State Police announce shuffles at Frederick Barracks B and Randallstown. Trooper B C Hammersmith resigns Monday to enter the insurance business after six years at Randallstown. Trooper Samuel KR Dorsey, from Conowingo, will replace him. Trooper Lemuel E Porter transfers from Randallstown to Aberdeen under Benson barracks. Trooper John W Hardy from Belair will take the Randallstown post.
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Randallstown Barracks
B. C. Hammersmith
Alty
Ce Samuel KR
Dorsey
Ridgeville
Conowingo Barracks
Lemuel
E. Porter
Baltimore
Randallstown
Aberdeen
Benson Barracks
Belair
John W. Hardy
Hagerstown
Legion Commander Demands Acheson Ouster At State Dept
Washington December 27 American Legion Commander Donald Wilson blasted the State Department as indecisive defeatist and incompetent at a news conference urging Secretary of State Acheson be ousted. He linked the fliers issue to a broader foreign policy question and noted the Legion had offered to pay a $120000 fine for four American airmen held in Hungary before the government announced it would cover the cost.
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Washington
Donald Wilson
American Legion
State Department
Wilson
Acheson
Defense
Louis Johnson
Legion
Hungary
Court News: Marriage License and Property Deeds
The court records show several marriages and licenses including Corbitt Selten Godwin and Ida Louise Weddle, plus William B. Birkitt and Sandra Stoffer Megonigal among others. Deeds list transfers from C Garfield Crone to Bobby Alger, Deville Brish to Helen Stewart, and others with nominal sums. Also a Christmas party report from Clarksburg Methodist Sunday school with community involvement and vessel assignments for two Emmitsburg men aboard the USS Hyades.
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Corbitt Selten Godwin
Dunn
N. C
Ida Louise Weddle
Wear Fourth Street
William B. Birkitt
Washington, D. C
Sandra Stoffer
Megonigal
San Rafael
Cal
Vernon J. Lyle
Alexandria
Marilyn E. Myatt
Irvington
Richard Fleming O'Brien
Long Island
N. Y
Mary Jeanne
Mary Frances Erwin
Charles
Noel Crosby
Ernest F. Smith
Wilbur W. Stull
Jesse Clay
Austin Z. Putman
Girl’s Condition Still Critical After Crash Near Hagerstown
Fifteen-year-old Gene Roger of Waynesboro Pennsylvania remained unconscious and in critical condition after a biline automobile collision near Hagerstown yesterday. Three others in the car and the bus occupants were injured. Edsel Good Nicholas, 32, of Blue Ridge Summit Pennsylvania was killed when the car collided with a Greyhound bus traveling from Washington to Pittsburgh on U S 40. The Maryland traffic death toll for 1951 rose to 534 with another fatality reported on U S 40 near Elkton.
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Hagerstown
Gene Roger
Waynesboro
Washington County Hospital
Edsel
Good Nicholas
Blue Ridge Summit
Washington
Pittsburgh
U. S. 40
Elkton
Maryland
$500000 Suit For False Arrest In Maryland
Odenton lunchroom owner and manager file a $500,000 damage suit in Superior Court accusing Col Daniel Bratton of Anne Arundel County Police and four subordinates of false arrest and malicious prosecution. Acquitted in Annapolis on a gambling charge tied to a grand jury inquiry. defendants named include Sgt D Brooke Meade Officer Roy Johnson Jr and two private detectives Melvin Spencer and Justine Delores Owens. Alan H Murrell represents Andrew and Wilson. case filed in Baltimore due to residency of plaintiffs and some defendants.
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Odenton
Daniel Bratton
Anne Acundel County Police
William Andrew
Elias Wilson
Annapolis
Fix
Cal. Bratton
D. Brooke Meade
Roy B. Johnson, Jr
Melvin Spencer
Justine Delores Owens
Alan H. Murrell
Andrew and Wilson
Baltlmore Court
Grunewald Ex-Prober Tied to Government Roles
Washington December 21 Attorney General McGrath said Henry Grunewald known as The Dutchman was a former Justice Department and Republican National Committee investigator and also worked for the Alien Property Office. He was a witness before the House committee probing tax scandals but declined to answer certain questions about his activities and government associations.
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McGrath
Henry the Dutchman
Justice Department
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Aten Property Office
Wiley
R-Wis
Alien Property Office
King House Committee
Hin
Adele
Nodin
Five Die In Florida Crash Near Daytona Beach
Six persons crushed to death when a Florida East Coast railway freight plowed into their car at a rural crossing near Daytona Beach. The car bore Mack Cooner of 40 West Jacksonville. The family, en route to Miami, included Cooner and his wife and four children. NBC raises TV rate to 29,065 per hour, signaling a nine percent rise from prior pricing.
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Fila
Dee
Florida East Coast Railway
Mack Cooner
Jacksonville
Miami
Cooner
NBC
New York
National Broadcasting Co
Shores Named Chief Fisheries Inspector
ANNAPOLIS December 27 Tidewater Fisheries Commission named Robert Lee Shores 38 as chief fisheries inspector from among four candidates He will lead Maryland s Tidewater enforcement fleet Shores is from Deal Island Somerset County and has eight years of enforcement experience His $5313 a year appointment follows the resignation of John W Poster and bypasses a recommendation for H Edwin Fleming who had acted as chief since Foster left
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Annapolis
Tidewater Fisheries Commission
Aday
Robert Lee Shores
Amozng
Maryland
Arthur H. Brice
John P. Tawes
Shores
Langier Sound
Deal Island
Somerset County
John W. 8. Poster
Bahamas
H. Edwin Fleming
Tidewater
Fleming
Foster
Shaw Acquitted in Drunk Driving Case at Ellicott City
Kenneth B Shaw of 352 West Patrick Street was found not guilty of drunken driving after a hearing before Magistrate David Force in Ellicott City. He received $5 in fines on a companion reckless driving charge after his car collided with guardrail posts on an Amor curve near Cooksville on December 17. Shaw was jailed, released on bond, and later hospitalized briefly for concussion after being driven to Frederick Memorial Hospital by relatives. Ed win J Nikirk represented Shaw. Lions Club noted at Key Hotel meeting with two teams chosen for a charity charades game referencing Salvation Army Kettle and New Year’s Eve events.
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Kenneth Bernard Shaw
West Patrick Street
David Force
Ellicott City
Frederick
Amor Curve
Cooksville
Shaw
John M. Worgan
Frederick Memorial Hospital
Edwin J. Nikirk
Lions Clay
Rayhu Specht
D. Thomas
R Simmons
Ira FL Ray
Co. Main
Merhle Wachter
Magaha
James
Gamblers fined in Baltimore bookmaking case
Four persons faced criminal charges in Baltimore as judges sentenced them to up to nine months in jail and fines up to 1000 dollars each for bookmaking and numbers offenses. Judge Joseph Sherbean imposed the penalties in the criminal court. Jack Greenspon, age 42, pleaded guilty to a bookmaking charge and received a six month term.
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Gamblers
Baltimore
Joseph Sherbean
House of Correction
Jack Greenspon
Russian atomic official reportedly fled to Washington
The London Daily Express reports a Soviet uranium chief Lt. Col. Fedya Astrachov, who led Russia’s East German mining program and held a Stalin prize, may have been moved to Washington after fleeing to the West six weeks ago.
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London Daily Express
West
Washington
Fedya Astrachov
Russia
East Germany
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