Word: briefness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With tennis courts nearcer than Scotch whiskey and toilet paper these days, a brief summary of what playing facilities are available to undergraduates is in order...
Last week, now a hale 90 and almost recovered from his chagrin, Walter Smith attended a large reception in South Africa's Orange Free State. An amiable gentleman soon singled him out for conversation. It was brief but pleasant, and afterwards Mr. Smith turned back to his old friend Mr. Fowkes. "Who was that gentleman?" he asked...
Descending into the realm of will-they-last child prodigies, the sensation of the season, not only from a musical point of view, was the conducting of 9-year-old Pierrino Gamba, still clad in short pants. After a tour of his native Italy, he made brief appearances in Lagano and Zurich before going to France. He concentrates on a young man's program (Schubert 8th, Beethoven 1st) and although I had no chance to see or hear him, I was very reliably informed that he conducted it very well...
Pepper points to his years at Law School as the origin of his politics. With a brief nod to the merits of the Case System, he claims his greatest gain was "a capacity for hard work, a sentiment and appreciation of what it means to get the facts...
Under the baton of Irving G. Fine '37, assistant professor of Music and adviser to the Music Club, the club's chamber orchestra will be going through the third performance of its brief career at Saturday's concert...