Word: columbias
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nearly 30,000 football enthusiasts will file into the Yale Bowl this afternoon as the Ivy League teams begin their respective seasons. In New Haven, Yale opens against the University of Connecticut, while Brown and Columbia oppose each other in Providence...
...Brown-Columbia contest will open the second official season for the Ivy Group colleges...
...Columbia, sixth in the standings last year, has lost its one-man team, Claude Benham, by graduation, and seems destined to drop even lower this year. With Aldo (Buff) Donelli taking over the coaching job from Lou Little who held it for 27 years, the Lions will have very little to throw against Brown, which has been made a 13-point favorite...
...couple obviously trying to make a comeback"; another insisted they were Margaret and Harry Truman. Their real identity: Orchestra Leader Paul Weston and his wife, Singer Jo Stafford. Paul and Jo have been burlesquing other pop performers at parties for years, decided to record the gag after Columbia executives heard Weston's act at a sales convention (Columbia A & R Man George Avakian picked the name Jonathan Edwards, after the fiery Colonial preacher, because he thought it had a properly ossified ring). The howling mistakes on the album, says Weston, are about half planned and half caused...
...quieter than in his keyboard-slamming "tone-cluster" days of the '20s and early '30s, when a New York newspaper sent a sportswriter to one of his piano recitals and featured it as a fight between "Kid Knabe and Battling Cowell." Apart from teaching stints at Columbia and the New School for Social Research, he spends most of his time in a peeling, starkly furnished yellow clapboard house in Shady, N.Y., surrounded by instruments that testify to his lifelong passion for sounds: Persian drums, Oriental flutes, a set of four resonant Pyrex bowls that he used...