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With a front-lawn place kick, Amos Alonzo Stagg warmed up to watch a football game between two teams of Sacramento Valley high school allstars, who dedicated their contest to the grand old man of football on his 96th birthday. All set for his 68th coaching season (as advisory punting coach at California's Stockton College), the Yale '88 All-American and onetime coach of the University of Chicago, the College of the Pacific, and Susquehanna University found paydirt in the congratulatory mail. Among the notes from old quarterbacks, halfbacks and fullbacks were 10,690 greenbacks-insurance companies...
Lucky in Angels. In matters of art, Cleveland has been lucky in its millionaires; three big trust funds finance the museum. But far and away the kindest angel for the new wing was Leonard Colton Hanna Jr., nephew of famed President-Maker Marcus Alonzo ("Mark"') Hanna, and big stockholder in M. A. Hanna Co. (iron ore, coal, lake shipping, steel), who died last October at 67. Bachelor Hanna became an art collector soon after graduating from Yale ('13), early keyed his private purchases to the museum's future needs. Over the years Hanna gave the museum...
While many old-style rural homes are having trouble staying at 100% of capacity, those near the bright lights are besieged with more applicants than they can handle. Says Director Lois Slonaker, who has a waiting list of 200 women at Evanston's 115-place Alonzo Mather Home: "What people resent more than anything else in rural locations is the feeling of being put on the shelf and laid aside. Some of our women lead the social life of a debutante...
...Stockton, Calif.'s College of the Pacific, where he coached for some years after the University of Chicago retired him because of old age in 1933, college football's famed Amos Alonzo Stagg attended a combined celebration of his own 95th birthday (Aug. 16), his wife's 81st birthday (Aug. 7), and their 63rd wedding anniversary next month...
Levister: Manhattan Monodrama (Debut LP). In this first collection of his short pieces, says youthful (30) Manhattan Composer Alonzo Levister, he was influenced by ''blues, Bartok, Bach and Baptist shouting," but the sound that comes out is clearly his own. The mood is wistful, the emotion wire-taut, the rhythms occasionally splintered. Most successful: Black Swan, a brooding, velvet-piled excursion into the mind and style of Trumpeter Miles Davis...