Word: campana
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After Dave Skeels had lost to the Gymnasts' Bob Campana, 3-0, in the opening 123-lb. match, the visitors' Art Moses, one of the best 130-pounders in the East, swarmed all over the varsity's Carl Kludt, nearly pinning him at least three times, for a 12-0 decision. Watkins then put the Crimson in the scoring column with an easy 5-0 victory over Jerry Cook...
...contemporaries. ¶J Italian Composer Riccardo Malipiero's 45-minute Sinfonia Cantata was premiered on the same program. A musical evocation of America, the work draws its text from poems in four different languages, all in different ways evoking the New World. Italy's Dino Campana sees classical images that compare the noble Indian savage to Venus, Federico Garcia Lorca's Brooklyn Bridge Nocturne throbs with Spanish symbolism, while France's Jules Laforgue dreams in Gallic-materialist specifics ("Des venaisons, et du whisky. . . et la loi de Lynch") and Walt Whitman shambles forth in his pagan...
...Kebbi valley had been stricken with onchocerciasis, the French colonial government decided some four months ago to choose this well-limited area (250,000 acres) to fight the disease to a standstill. Into the valley rushed a team of eight French scientists (led by Tropical Diseases Expert Dr. Raymond Campana), 20 native nurses and two helicopter crews...