Word: boing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Yale beat the varsity 71-69 last weekend, but the result was hardly conclusive. The varsity, on the other hand, whipped Cornell, but that was without the Big Red's Bo Roberson...
...Bo Robertson seems sure to give the Big Red big points in the broad jump and whatever dash he enters, as well as the low hurdles. In addition, Cornell has Art Boland and Earl McHugh, both outstanding dash...
...running events, Cornell is a threat to score well in the dash with both Bo Robertson and Earl McHugh, and John Ingley could take the 600. Mike Midler and Dave Eckles are Cornell's distance threats...
Third item in this batch of operatic rarities: Arrigo Boïto's Mefistofele, newly recorded by RCA Victor on 2 LPs (with Boris Christoff, Giacinto Prandelli, Orietta Moscucci; Orchestra and Chorus of the Rome Opera conducted by Vittorio Gui). Known chiefly as a poet and mighty librettist (Verdi's Otello and Falstaff), Boïto always remained an interesting oddity as a composer; he premiered his version of Goethe's Faust at La Scala in 1868 only to see it booed off the stage after two performances because of its experimentation with Wagnerian techniques. Intellectually more...
This year, however, Cornell has lost its three top players, including Chuck Rolles and Bo Roberson, who averaged 40 points a game between them from that team, and is now relying on two sophomores for the bulk of its attack. Cornell has thus far defeated Buffalo College and lost to Bucknell and Colgate...