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...Thomas Alva Edison's pet hates were "small-brained" capitalists and "bulge-head" professors. He disliked capitalists because they never put enough money into his proliferating inventions, and professors because they ridiculed his nearly total ignorance of algebra. Said Edison: "I can hire mathematicians at $15 a week, but they can't hire...
...Since Alva Kelley came to coach at Brown in 1951, his teams have won four, lost two, and tied one; this represents the best series record on the Bruins' current schedule. The Crimson lost 14 to 6 in 1955, 21 to 12 in 1956; and last year Brown rolled up its highest total of the entire series, soundly thrashing the varsity, 33 to 6. The Crimson, on the other hand, registered its largest score of the series in the very first encounter. It came in 1893, when Brown went down to a sorrowful 58-0 defeat...
...Flynn, J. William '59 E 21 6.3 195 Darien, Conn. 88 Dauk, Peter J. '60 E 22 6.2 190 New Canaan, Conn. 89 Prouty, Russell C. '59 E 22 5.8 160 N. Scituate, Mass. 90 Thompson, James C. '61 E 19 5.9 170 Hinsdale, Ill. The Brown Coaching Staff: Alva Kelley, Milt Piepul, Carl Schuett, Joseph Restic, Alex Nahigan...
Rossini: The Barber of Seville (Maria Callas, Tito Gobbi, Luigi Alva, Nicola Zaccaria, Fritz Ollendorff; Philharmonia Orchestra and Chorus conducted by Alceo Galliera; Angel, 3 LPs). Callas' adroitly wrought Rosina strikes a precarious balance between bubbly naivetè and a subliminal Latin wisdom as shrewd as a fishwife's eye. The Callas voice is in soaring form, buttressed by Baritone Gobbi's smooth, superbly flexible rendering of the role of Figaro and Basso Zaccaria's sumptuous, tomfoolish Basilio. Conductor Galliera provides the coherence and dramatic drive necessary to Rossini's comic frenzy...
...squads played on more nearly even terms in the second half, with both coaches substituting very freely. Altogether, Alva Kelley used 45 players--"everybody that's out for football at Brown," as he said afterwards...