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...Adams ties Dunster, Adolph W. Samborski, Director of Intramural Athletics, said yesterday, the team to play Yale will be decided by a coin toss, and the championship by a play-off next week...
...this is the more remarkable because the very idea of doing a black Carmen is a pretty obvious device for converting color into coin. Furthermore, there is a musical objection to the scheme. Bizet wrote French romantic music that, as many critics feel, is hardly even suitable to its original Spanish subject. With back-country U.S. Negroes, it goes about as well as pink champagne at a hoedown. On top of this, Oscar Hammerstein II dipped his big toe in the Mississippi mud and wrote some lyrics that should be thrown back to the catfish. Fortunately, he also supplied...
...raced through Genoa and far beyond. Hundreds of Italian athletes sent in bronze and copper trophies to be melted down for the statue. The Italian navy and merchant marine offered bronze scrap from Italian ships sunk in World War II, and from one poor woman came a single copper coin. Sculptor Guido Galletti, 61, labored for nearly a year to model and cast a figure eight feet tall to stand on a pedestal ten feet high...
...onetime Maryland coach (1913-34) who had set out after World War II, with alumni support, to get Maryland the best football team that money could buy. Over the years, he talked legislators into ever greater appropriations for the University of Maryland, and paid them in a current coin: football victories. When he resigned last January, after 18 years as U. of M. president, to run for governor on the Democratic ticket, Curly Byrd's football team (in five years, 43 victories, six defeats) was the nation's best. The university had been transformed from a small agricultural...
...PENNY THAT ROLLED AWAY, by Louis MacNeice (Putnam; $2.25), is a coin's-eye view of the world pegged on the comic misadventures of "a dime called Dinah and a nickel called Nick and a brown baby sister called Penny for short," who "lived in a Piggy Bank up on a mantlepiece." British Poet MacNeice, a junior member of the Auden-Isherwood-Spender literary axis of the '30s, pitches his pennies in and out of trouble with enough sly surprises to clinch his first bid for fame with the lollipop...