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Starting the final period with a comfortable 6-1 lead. Coach Jim Hutchinson pulled starting goalie George Anderson, replacing him with Howie Rose. The Crimson scored four goals in the period, getting goals from Stu. Harris, Rick Cowen, and Lev Byrd, while Rose let in only two BSC goals...
...commercial record companies and the Library of Congress during the period between 1925 and 1935. The Ramblers play almost the entire range of American folk instruments (mouth bow, harmonica, autoharp, fiddle, banjo, mandolin, guitar), in the styles used by such groups as Gid Tanner and his Skillet Lickers, Byrd Moore and his Hot Shots, and Dr. Humphrey Bate and the Possum Hunters, to name but a few of the groups from which the Ramblers derive their repertoire. They play old breakdowns, sing ballads, party songs--in short, whatever the mountain people played...
...these gifts is his ability to elicit from each musician in the group the best he or she can produce. Adams' prowess as a conductor, the caliber of the individual performers, and a varied repertoire, including Bach's "Jesu, Meine Freude", Brahms Opus 104, Purcell's "Funeral Sentences", three Byrd motets, and works of Debussy, Sermisy, Vecchi and Lassus, promise an excellent concert...
...errors in the Senate. The first was his sponsorship of an old family friend, Boston Municipal Court Judge Francis X. Morrissey, for the federal district court in Massachusetts. The second came when, through inattention and uncharacteristic sloppiness, he lost the Senate whip's job to West Virginia's Robert Byrd earlier this year...
Died. A. Willis Robertson, 84, U.S. Senator from Virginia from 1947 to 1967 and chairman of the Banking and Currency Committee; in Lexington, Va. Robertson was born the same year and in the same town (Martinsburg, W. Va.) as the late Harry Byrd Sr., and both conservative Democrats entered the Virginia state senate at the same time in 1916. Byrd went on to construct a powerful statewide political organization that made him one of the Senate's most influential Southerners. Robertson built a reputation as an economic conservative, advocating drastic budget cuts to forestall Government-fueled inflation. His defeat...