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REDMEN ROLL Smith Center (Kans.) opened the Class 2-1A playoffs on Oct. 30 by scoring a national high school record 72 first-quarter points in an 83--0 win over Plainville. Four days later the Redmen beat St. John...

JOAN WIENCEKHOMEWOOD, ILL.Joan, a junior goalie at Homewood-Flossmoor Community High, had five straight shutouts before surrendering a goal in a 3-1 win over Lake Forest High. She has had 67 saves this season in...

In later years, Norway's Fridtjof Nansen would gain fame as a polar explorer and as the winner, in 1922, of the Nobel Peace Prize. In the winter of 1884, when he was 22 years old, he got a foretaste of treks to come....

Gordon Pirie, a 26-year-old British paint salesman in Norway on holiday, found time to outrun Russia's Vladimir Kuts in world record 13:36.8 for 5,000 meters at Bergen, equaled 7:55.6 mark for 3,000 meters at Trondheim.