Word: cedars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Enthusiastic amateur musicians are tuning up for their biggest season. The Sioux City Symphony (70 semipros and amateurs) opened with Met Baritone Leonard Warren as guest. The Cedar Rapids Symphony (69 amateurs and 17 members of the musicians' union) had a full house with, said Conductor Henry Denecke, "no one out with the flu and the bases loaded," i.e., all five bass chairs occupied, no simple matter in Cedar Rapids...
Busy Little Fingers. In Cedar Rapids, Iowa, a 13-year-old who enjoyed leafing through the encyclopedia, was turned over to juvenile probation authorities after the discovery that he had assembled two-by-fours, a box and a sharpened steel plate to make a small but serviceable guillotine...
...Master's Tools. Engle, a lanky figure with penetrating blue eyes and an awesome store of energy, grew up in Cedar Rapids, just 24 miles away. He graduated magna cum laude from Iowa's Coe College in 1931, took his master's at Iowa City and in 1932 won the annual prize of the Yale Series of Younger Poets with his first book of poems, Worn Earth. Later he went to Oxford as a Rhodes scholar, tended wicket and pulled an oar for Merton College, returned to Iowa in 1937 to start shaping poets...
...split-level, $20,000 development house designed by the architectural firm of Danforth Compton and Walter Pierce and built by Edward Green and Harmon White in Lexington, Mass., nine miles northwest of downtown Boston. The exterior is finished in cedar to match the rustic surroundings. The interior is separated into functional areas on a triple-level scheme: three bedrooms and bath on the top level; living room, dining room, kitchen and main entrance on the middle level; playroom, utility room and garage (convertible into two more bedrooms) on the lower level...
...yesterday afternoon's meeting of the Radcliffe Student Council, Susan Olsen '58, president of the Student Government Association, suggested that the controversy be aired at next fall's Cedar Hill conference, a semi-annual meeting of Annex student leaders and Administration...