Word: belmonts
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Everything about the tiny (500 students) Roman Catholic college of Belmont Abbey, nestling in the farmlands of southern North Carolina, suggests rural serenity. Everything, that is, save Basketball Coach Al McGuire, 32. Brash as Broadway, New York-born Al McGuire still has a subway tang to his speech as he blows his horn with the stridency of a barker at Coney. "I fill the people's gymnasiums, give 'em a good show and a good ball game," he says. "I may make silly statements, but I'm no jerk...
...basketball, least of all his enemies, can afford to call Belmont Abbey's McGuire a jerk. By all rights, his adopted school should be the smallest in smalltime basketball: its bandbox gymnasium has only 500 permanent seats; players must clean their own uniforms. But under Al McGuire, Belmont Abbey has developed almost overnight into one of the nation's best small-college teams. Last week, winning two games out of three in Virginia's Quantico Tournament, Belmont Abbey's boys boosted Al McGuire's won-and-lost record to a gaudy 67-14 since...
...West Roxbury; Richard K. Ellingboe, of Dunster and Wilmington, Del.; Douglas E. Buie, of Kirkland and Norfolk, Va.; Christopher Gale, of Eliot and Webster Groves, Mo.; Larry J. Hohit, of Leverett and Greenwood, Ind.; Thomas H. Moss, of Lowell and Cleveland, Ohio; Claude E. Welch of Quincy and Belmont; and Eliot T. Putnam, Jr., of Winthrop and Dedham...
Last week the Met gratefully honored the guild and Mrs. Belmont. Onstage, Barry Morell, Dorothy Kirsten, Leonie Rysanek, Zinka Milanov sang arias from L'Africaine, Louise, Tannhäuser, Bohème, supported by the Met orchestra, chorus and ballet, while Mrs. Belmont, 80, sat in the center box, as firmly as ever part of the Met scene. During intermission. General Manager Rudolf Bing presented to Mrs. Belmont a silver tray with the engraved signatures of the board members and guild staff...
...Belmont, the guild's founder, began her career on the other side of the footlights. Born Eleanor Robson, the daughter of an English stock-company actress, she followed her mother to the U.S., got a job in stock in San Francisco, soon found herself touring with Lionel Barrymore, who undertook to educate her by reading aloud from Kipling's Jungle Books. Her first success, the title role in Israel Zangwill's Merely Mary Ann, so moved critics during the play's three-year run that they "always seemed to write about new-mown hay when they...