Word: alto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Five Faculty members will attend the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Palo Alto, Calif., next year. "Guests at this center are given freedom to do whatever they want, and I intend to have a great time," Albert J. Guerard, professor of English, one of the participants, commented last night...
Frank B. Freidel, Jr., professor of History, will spend the next academic year at the Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences at Palo Alto, Calif. His course, History 61, will be taught by a visiting professor, Marcus Cunliffe, head of American Studies at the University of Manchester...
...drew Italy into the war on the side of the Triple Entente (Britain, France and Russia), the victorious Allies awarded Italy the strategic Brenner Pass and a slice of Austrian Alpine territory the size of Connecticut leading up to it. The Italians changed the name of the region to Alto Adige, Italianized town and street names. Benito Mussolini's eager henchmen even substituted "Giovanni" for "Johannes" on tombstones...
Cagney is in fighting trim for his part, and the script by Charles Lederer, who also directed, gives him some fairly lively canvas to bounce around on. The songs are not much, but Cagney carries them off nicely in a hollered-out, newsboy alto that makes Shirley (Oklahoma!) Jones, the girl he doesn't get, sound like Renata Tebaldi. But not even the pleasure of catching Cagney at close to his best can entirely appease the sense that this is really an amoral little movie. Not even the greediest hands in labor's till have ever publicly demanded...
Died. Brother Matthew, 48, frail, balding lay brother of the Roman Catholic Servite order, famed, until he entered a monastery in 1953, as fast-fingered Alto Saxophonist Boyce Brown, a rarely recorded legend of the '30s and '40s, who as a combo colleague of Benny Goodman, Gene Krupa and Eddie Condon helped create Chicago-style jazz, later found time for his horn amidst his humble monastery duties because "good entertainment is good and can be used to serve God''; of a heart attack; in Hillside...