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...three men new to the game--Bill Desloge, Dave Grannis, and Bobby Bland--turned into first rate players, and there are fewer of the usual glaring weaknesses on the starting freshman team...

Author: By Paul S. Cowan, | Title: THE SPORTING SCENE | 4/28/1959 | See Source »

...Bland, first string freshman hockey goalie, has filled the gap at the nets more than adequately. A player with outstanding reflexes, he has almost mastered the tricky hops and scorching line shots (clocked at 130 miles an hour) difficult for even the most experienced goal tender...

Author: By Paul S. Cowan, | Title: THE SPORTING SCENE | 4/28/1959 | See Source »

...vocal presentation of texts by Archibald MacLeish around which four accompanying instruments (violin, cello, English horn, harp) weave contrasting sonorities in a striking instrumental texture. Calabro's Sonata and Overton's Quartet were both professional jobs, but more interesting in their smoothly machined parts than in their bland conclusions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Forum for Moderns | 4/27/1959 | See Source »

...boyhood flash of illumination and pursued a course of sainthood to his death. And by the simple process of digging up the diaries of three French writers, he makes old gossip seem as juicily Gallic as a Paris headline scandal. Points of View is, in fact, as bland a job of literary borrowing and cool transformation as has been seen in some time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Latest Last One | 4/27/1959 | See Source »

...choose freely a way of life as well as political and economic systems." India's press and public demanded that Nehru be at least as forthright in denouncing Red China as he was in denouncing Britain and France during the Suez invasion, and were impatient with his bland impeachments of Peking. In Buddhist Cambodia, a newspaper that often echoes Cambodia's neutralist royal family urged Red China to withdraw its troops from Tibet and prove "that it respects the hopes of all peoples for liberty and self-determination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TIBET: The Three Precious Jewels | 4/20/1959 | See Source »

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