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3 A fow years ago I learned that Dre Vedenith had lost h! hone
through the foreclosure of a mortgages This ws just before the
gemes in 1956, i visited Imjor Griffith and members of the National
Basketball Rules Comittee and put the proposition before then that we
have @ Naismith night in which one pemy of each person's admission should
CG a uae, Over $7,000 was realized and this money was turned
over to Dire When this was presented to hin he made thie wonderful

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were endgavoring to become mterialistie and building a Sield house, as
they might eal] it, at the expense of Dre Naimith's contributions you ~-,—-(
wuld give : on of some of these people who have talked to v Semen
who are pall tropa i with Kansas or big a ar peed of Kansas, then -
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