Word: ann
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...They Won't Tell Me Anything." Now, nine successful years away from those awkward summers in Vermont, Robin Roberts still turns for help to the man who polished him up for the Phillies. Last fall Roberts surprised his old coach by stopping off in Ann Arbor and asking permission to work out with the Michigan pitchers. Puzzled, Fisher said, "Sure." He watched Roberts throw a few. Fisher saw right away that the familiar three-quarters motion had been replaced by a sidearm delivery; Roberts was unconsciously favoring a sore arm. Fisher walked over. "Robby," he said...
...begun to suspect that there might be something else besides playing ball. He asked his sister Nora if she knew any girls he might ask for a date. Nora fixed him up with a young grade-school teacher fresh from the University of Wisconsin, a pretty brunette named Mary Ann Kalnes. Mary had never seen a big-league game; Robin could talk only about baseball. So the happy couple went to the movies, where conversation is sometimes helpful but not compulsory. "We evidently got along," says Robin. Little more than a year later they were married...
...piano reduction of Claudio spies Music for a Ballet, an orchestral score which won the 1956 Nadia Boulanger Prize, was performed by Ann Besser and Rzewski. The work is in four movements--Prelude, Vivace, Pantomine, and Pas d'action. It is impossible to judge a symphonic piece fairly after hearing it on the piano. The repeated-chord figurations which were so annoying would probably have been effective, had they been lightly chanted by a woodwind choir (or even played much more softly on the pianos). The melodies that could be heard above the accompanimental material were often charming and expressive...
...Ann Luyten, of Barnard-Bertram, captured the tennis singles, while Julie Harmon and Mary Chandler, of Whitman-Eliot, were doubles winners...
...experience, shadowy sketches whom he seems only to have met, never to have known. The hero's hairiness is, like much of the characterization, inadequate. Yet where characterization is needed, Grindell writes, "I will not attempt to describe the beauty of the girl whom I shall call Carol Ann Paterson." As a result, she never becomes a girl, but only a vivacious sweet young thing...