George Mikan was voted by the Associated Press as the most outstanding college basketball player of the first half of the 20th century. He was born in Joliet, Illinois, and educated at DePaul University, Chicago. While playing center on the DePaul basketball team, Mikan was a three-time All-American selection (1944-1946) and led the team to the 1945 National Invitational Tournament (NIT) title. He became a member of the Chicago American Gears professional team in 1947. Mikan then played for eight seasons with the Minneapolis Lakers (1947-1956), leading the team to five league championships (1949, 1950, 1952-1954). One of the first dominant centers in the National Basketball Association (NBA), he scored a record 11,764 points in 520 games and led the NBA in scoring three times (1949-1951).

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In this excerpt from "quality" by john galsworthy, which two parts clearly indicate the literary point of view of the essay? that tenement had a certain quiet distinction; there was no sign upon its face that he made for any of the royal family—merely his own german name of gessler brothers; and in the window a few pairs of boots. i remember that it always troubled me to account for those unvarying boots in the window, for he made only what was ordered, reaching nothing down, and it seemed so inconceivable that what he made could ever have failed to fit. had he bought them to put there? that, too, seemed inconceivable. he would never have tolerated in his house leather on which he had not worked himself. besides, they were too beautiful—the pair of pumps, so inexpressibly slim, the patent leathers with cloth tops, making water come into one's mouth, the tall brown riding boots with marvellous sooty glow, as if, though new, they had been worn a hundred years. those pairs could only have been made by one who saw before him the soul of boot—so truly were they prototypes incarnating the very spirit of all foot-gear. these thoughts, of course, came to me later, though even when i was promoted to him, at the age of perhaps fourteen, some inkling haunted me of the dignity of himself and brother. for to make boots—such boots as he made—seemed to me then, and still seems to me, mysterious and wonderful.