Word: altos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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David E. Bell, of Palo Alto, California, as teaching fellow in Economics and tutor; A.M. Harvard...
...recorder blends well with a violin, or with other recorders. There are four kinds: soprano, alto, tenor, bass, the last surprisingly weak and whiskey-voiced for its three-foot length. Until five years ago, most recorders were made in Germany or England. The English revival had been started by the late untidy-bearded Arnold Dolmetsch, musical antiquary. One of his pupils, Margaret Bradford (who now helps run the American Recorder Society), got a Haverhill. N.H. cabinetmaker named William F. Koch to make some. Now Manufacturer Koch turns hard, red cocobolo wood into 90% of the recorders sold...
John C. Decius, Palo Alto, Calif., Teaching Fellow in Chemistry...
...consistent record breaking of 23-year-old Les Steers has made track fans blink. A broad-shouldered, slim-hipped six-footer. Steers has been a jumping freak since he was so high. As a ten-year-old Palo Alto schoolboy, he cleared the bar at 5 ft. 4 in. Spotted by Stanford's star-eyed Track Coach Dink Templeton, the little jumping jack had his style changed from the childish scissors to the Western roll (going over parallel with the bar). By the time he was an eighth-grader, young Steers could jump 6 ft. 2 in., competed with...
...swings the classics, in his own delicate, sophisticated arrangements and those of his black, impish trumpeter, Charlie Shavers. Kirby's clarinetist is an oldtimer: goggle-eyed Buster Bailey, who looks half of his 39 years. The band-filled out by Pianist Billy Kyle, Drummer O'Neil Spencer, Alto Saxophonist Russell Procope (rhymes with "no soap")-has been unchanged for nearly three years, a phenomenon in the trade. But Kirby was lately separated from the sweet singer he discovered and married, Maxine Sullivan...