Word: came
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harvard came in 19 strokes behind BC. The Crimson fielded six men and counted the four best scores, as follows: Bill Rickenbacker 71, Bob Matson 78, Dick Q'Keeffe 79, and Herb Mee and Hugh Nawn...
...Belmont came back in the fifth, when Leigh Quinn smacked a four-bagger to drive in three men and tie the score at 4-all. The Crimson then took advantage of good base-running and a squeeze play to grab a lead and held...
Both winners were speaking on the negative side of "Resolved, That the Communist Party should be outlawed in the United States." This is the first time the winners came from the same team; awards usually go to the best speaker on each side...
During the Second World War, Munch faced the same problems which confronted all musicians in occupied countries, and came up with what many people consider the most intelligent solution. To protect the members of his orchestra, he was obliged to continue conducting and thus keep a foreign conductor out. He defended his musicians from possible capture by the Germans on political grounds, and did not allow investigations of religious or racial backgrounds. At first he refused to conduct before Nazi audiences at all, but when obliged to go so, he accepted his fees and turned them over to the Resistance...
...preoccupation with music has not prevented him from living well off the podium. He is an highly civilized man, deeply interested in painting and craft. Walter Hendl, assistant conductor of the New York Philharmonic and newly-appointed conductor of the Dallas Symphony likes to tell about the time Munch came to visit him at his home three years ago. He arrived with a bouquet of roses for Mrs. Hendl, and then proceeded to spend the rest of the evening teaching Hendl different kinds of solitaire which he uses when traveling. Hendl had a wonderful evening, but when it was over...