In addition, a special award was given to Bob ( Bevo ) Nordmann, the 6-foot-10 center who missed much of the season because of a knee injury.

Bevo was a non-alcoholic malt beverage, or near beer, brewed in the United States by the Anheuser-Busch company beginning in the early 20th century.

Production rose greatly with national prohibition in 1919, and Bevo was by far the most popular of the many " cereal beverages " or " near beers " of the time.

The name " Bevo " was coined from the word " beverage " and the Slavic language word for beer " pivo ", and was pronounced " Bee-vo ".

This led to secondary slang uses of the word ; for example, in American military slang a young and inexperienced officer was called a " Bevo ".

Decades later, Bevo was mentioned in the song " Trouble " in the musical The Music Man as a reference to an objectionable aspect of the culture of young people during the time in which the musical was set ( although The Music Man was set in 1912, four years prior to Bevo's introduction ).

Bevo I was originally named " Bo " but came to be called Bevo during his service.

The most recently retired and longest-serving Bevo was Bevo XIII, which like the current Bevo was supplied to the university by John T. Baker, owner of the Sunrise Ranch in Liberty Hill, Texas.

Bevo XIII, originally named Sunrise Express, was a champion steer at the age of 3, before becoming the UT mascot.

The Examiner was the first newspaper to break the story of the dismemberment murder of 22-year-old Elizabeth Short, who was ultimately dubbed the Black Dahlia by Los Angeles Herald-Express crime reporter Bevo Means.

One of his notable projects was a series of cartoons featuring the Texas Longhorns ' mascot " Bevo " for the University of Texas at Austin in the 1950s and 1960s.

For decades, the Grand Avenue location was the flagship store, serving what was then a densely populated urban area in the neighborhood of Dutchtown and adjacent to the neighborhoods of Tower Grove South, Gravois Park, Bevo Mill, Holly Hills, and Carondelet.

First flown in 1949, the Mentor was demonstrated for civilian audiences nationwide by famed aerobatic pilots Betty Skelton and Bevo Howard.

In 1951, his only year of varsity basketball at Wellsville, Clarence Bevo Francis scored 776 points in 25 games for an average of nearly 32 point per game.

Bevo enjoyed its greatest success during the time of prohibition, when beer, wine and distilled liquors, were made illegal for thirteen years.

In 1930 Anheuser-Busch built a series of boat-bodied cars in its St. Louis shops called the " Bevo Boats " which were used for promotion.

Bevo III escaped from his enclosure and ran amok across campus for 2 days.

In 1951, during his senior year in high school in Wellsville, Ohio, Clarence " Bevo " Francis scored 776 points in 25 games for an average of nearly 32 points per game.

The gesture is meant to approximate the shape of the head and horns of the UT mascot, the Texas longhorn Bevo.

Bevo Francis, teammate Al Schreiber, and his coach Newt Oliver later signed with Boston Whirlwinds, a barnstorming team that played against the Harlem Globetrotters.

Bevo became part of the popular culture of the time, and is mentioned in various popular songs and Vaudeville skits of the era.

Independent or family bakeries make gooey butter cakes, from a time when there were still many neighborhood corner German and Austrian American bakeries in St. Louis, in neighborhoods like Dutchtown, Bevo Mill, and the Tower Grove area, and others.

Rio Grande is home to the University of Rio Grande / Rio Grande Community College, the alma mater of Bevo Francis, who set and still holds the NCAA basketball single-game scoring record.

The Anheuser-Busch company started brewing Bevo when alcoholic beverages were prohibited in 1916 by the United States armed forces.

At the peak of its popularity in the early 1920s, more than five million cases of Bevo were sold annually.

Renard with a mug of Bevo, depicted in Glazed architectural terra-cotta | terra cotta on the interior walls of the Bevo building, St. Louis

Some Bevo advertising featured the character " Renard the Fox " ( based on the protagonist of a medieval French folk-tale ), and promotional mugs with this character were manufactured.

A contemporary advertisement read " Cooling and invigorating, Bevo the Beverage.

The University of Texas named its mascot " Bevo ", a name which has stuck to this day.

Irving Berlin included a paean to the drink, " You Can't Stay Up on Bevo ", in his 1917 army revue, Yip Yip Yaphank.

The Bevo Mill, St. Louis | Bevo Mill, St. Louis, in 2008

The Bevo building, with the Renard character prominently displayed at the corners, still operates as a bottling facility at their main brewery in St. Louis, Missouri.

The landmark Bevo Mill, constructed by August Anheuser Busch, Sr. in 1917.

After the Juniors were welcomed and congratulated for qualifying for the Finals of the Junior Class, Mrs. William H. Long, Jr. was introduced as the first speaker.

An alert 10-year-old safety patrol boy was congratulated by police today for his part in obtaining a reckless driving conviction against a youthful motorist.

Suetonius states that Domitius was congratulated by friends on the birth of his son, whereupon he replied " I don't think anything produced by me and Agrippina could possibly be good for the state or the people ".

In February 1958, when he was head of the cosmic ray group of the University of Maryland's physics department, he was congratulated in a telegram to the president of the university from President Eisenhower for his work in satellite research.

Upon his accession he wrote to Peter the Venerable and the monks of Cluny, asking them to pray for him, while he was congratulated by Arnulf of Lisieux.

Later that year, he won first prize in the International Science Fair for the invention ; he was also recognized by the Westinghouse Talent Search and was personally congratulated by President Lyndon B. Johnson during a White House ceremony.

After the list was read, Saddam congratulated those still seated in the room for their past and future loyalty.

Another show was called It Stands To Reason-The Thoughts Of Chairman Alf ; one reviewer concluded that " Speight and Mitchell are to be congratulated for understanding so well the mind of a man who they hate ".

His original birth name was Wayland, meaning land by the highway, but it was changed after a Baptist preacher visited Jennings ' parents and congratulated his mother for naming him after the Wayland Baptist University in Plainview, Texas.

Though none of the men were found guilty by the all-white jury ( as blacks had been disfranchised under the South Carolina constitution, they could not serve on juries ), Thurmond was congratulated by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People ( NAACP ) and the American Civil Liberties Union ( ACLU ) for his efforts.

By way of introduction to his work, Piazzolla played her a number of his classically-inspired compositions but it was not until he finally played her his tango Triunfal that she immediately congratulated him and encouraged him to pursue his career in tango, recognising that this was where his true musical talent lay.

According to chairman of the club Eric Gudde the placing in the more favourable category came earlier than anticipated, he also congratulated the fans and promised to maintain the same policy until Feyenoord was completely healthy again and will never fall back into the first category.

Lynne Truss stated that " Samuel Beckett spliced his way merrily through such novels as Molloy and Malone Dies, thumbing his nose at the semicolon all the way ," " James Joyce preferred the colon, as more authentically classical ; P. G. Wodehouse did an effortlessly marvellous job without it ; George Orwell tried to avoid the semicolon completely in Coming up for Air, ( 1939 )," " Martin Amis included just one semicolon in Money ( 1984 )," and " Umberto Eco was congratulated by an academic reader for using no semicolons in The Name of the Rose ( 1983 ).

Morecambe was appeased and congratulated Braben, saying, " It stays!

Despite the fact that he was proposing a joint attack on Iran with the Mamluk Sultanate ( Cairo ), Mengu-Timur congratulated Abagha when Baraq was defeated by the Ilkhan in 1270.

In fact, shortly after the premiere in 1974, Lansky phoned Strasberg and congratulated him on a good performance ( Strasberg was nominated for an Oscar for his role ), but added " You could've made me more sympathetic.

The senators at first congratulated Sejanus, but when the letter, which first digressed into completely unrelated matters, suddenly denounced him and ordered his arrest, he was immediately surrounded and escorted to prison.

Palmerston privately congratulated Napoleon on his triumph, noting that Britain's constitution was rooted in history but that France had had five revolutions since 1789, with the French Constitution of 1850 being a " day-before-yesterday tomfoolery which the scatterbrain heads of Marrast and Tocqueville invented for the torment and perplexity of the French nation ".

She was then commanded to the Royal yacht by King Edward VII where he congratulated her on her pluck and skill, and they discussed the performance of the boat and its potential for British government despatch work.