Word: circuits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Clifford's father was a traveling auditor for the Missouri Pacific Railroad. His uncle was the late, fire-breathing Clark McAdams, liberal editorial writer on the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. His adoring mother is Georgia McAdams Clifford, who overrode the objections of her husband and became a Chautauqua circuit storyteller. One of her favorite numbers: the story of Persian Prince Sticky-sticky-stombo-no-so-rombo-hody-body-bosco-ica-non-nun-a -non-combo-tombo-rombo, who drowned in a well, wherefore his brother Yip became king...
...would have little trouble finding some other podium to wave from. He is a first-rate conductor of Mozart and Strauss operas-and the Metropolitan Opera badly needs additional conductors (one recently died, two others have been ill on & off). Besides, there is the increasingly attractive guest conductors' circuit, with few of the cares and all the pleasures of a regular berth. At week's end, the Minneapolis Symphony snapped him up for eight concerts in October. The only real loser was Pittsburgh...
Coach Barclay's Varsity quintet will throw its record, bottom grimace on the Ivy League totem pole, onto the Arena court against the Eli at 9:30 o'clock in a do-or-die attempt to save its season. Yale stands sixth in the seven-team circuit with an unimpressive two-win, seven-loss record to the Crimson's one victory and seven defeats...
LeCorbeiller, a lecturer in Applied Physics, has managed to combine an "amateur" interest in philosophy with a highly respected knowledge of electric circuit theory. He has come up with a provoking series of predictions in the Atlantic Monthly that have amazed some of his scientific colleagues...
Close victories by Winthrop and Dudley initiated the second round of the inter-House basketball circuit last night in the Blockhouse, with the Puritans eking out a 42 to 36 win over Kirkland, and the Commuters catching Eliot from behind in the last minutes of play for a 41 to 39 triumph...