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...windows, saw one woman's head cut off. Off the tracks went another diner, two Pullmans, five coaches-nine of the train's 16 cars. They piled up in a great, hasty W, tearing up the rails, twisting them like horseshoes. One coach was crumpled like an accordion. Another, slithering off the rails, hit a signal tower, was sliced in two from...
Charley-Horse Champ. Everyone agreed that Kramer would win the tournament. Joe Hunt disagreed. Kramer was not sure. In the finals he even served erratically. Down two sets to one, he folded like an accordion. He was too good to lose a love set, but he did. It was Hunt's title at 6-3, 6-8, 10-8, 6-0. The new National Champion celebrated by collapsing. He had been rubbing off a Charley horse for most of the final set. Sick-stomached Kramer rushed over, gave Hunt's leg an extra rub-then gave up beside...
Merving N. "Mery" Lysing, 4-43, Morehead State Teachers College '37 and Mineapolis. He plays the sax and clarinet, writes music, and has a secret ambition to play the accordion...
...wooded hills of northern Sweden, he attributes his flawless style to the springy forest paths, thickly padded with pine needles, where he first learned to run. He believes he is smooth and swift because he enjoys running more than anything else in the world except playing his accordion and doing the hambo, a native Swedish dance...
...Rhapsody in Blue" was written for originally seems at the moment to be obscured by its numerous and greatly varied instrumentations, but I for one have heard it for piano, for two pianos, for piano and orchestra, for piano and organ, for organ and orchestra, for four pianos, for accordion, and in other popularized versions. And it was only this season that "Porgy and Bess," in a somewhat stilted and unGershwinian manner (a la Bennett), entered Carnegie Hall...