Word: connecticut
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Charles E. Ives's Third Symphony lay in his barn in Connecticut for 35 years before it got its first full performance in 1946. It won a Pulitzer Prize the next year. In Carnegie Hall last week, the ailing old (76) composer's Second Symphony, finished in 1901, finally came to judgment...
When Hitler came to power in 1933, Neumann crossed the Channel and joined Arnold Toynbee at the Royal Institute of International Affairs. He was lecturing in the London School of Economics when a call arrived from Wesleyan University. Hastily looking up the Connecticut school, of which he had never heard, Neumann made his way to America and started the teaching career that has made him a popular figure on the sprawling Wesleyan campus...
...Gloomy Sunday" which drove scores of Europeans to suicide. After this selection, a former African missionary made ecstatic comments, "If angels can sing as well as that, I'm going to heaven--how about you?" There were shouts of "Yes, Oh Yes Jesus" from the front rows. Then the "Connecticut Songbird," a cheery fat man, sang a lament about his terrible life before "the Lord reached down his hand for me." He kept his eyes riveted to the ceiling while he was singing, as if he expected the hand to appear once again, and there were more shouts of "Beautiful...
...medley trio of John Steinhart, Ken Emerson, and Ron Huebsch will need its best yet to top the Bruin squad, which swam the 150 yards in 3:01.6 against Connecticut Saturday in Storrs...
Three College seniors have received Henry Fellowships of $1,820 each to study at Oxford and Cambridge Universities next year. The awards went to Donald A. Hall Jr. '51 of Eliot House and Hamden, Connecticut; Robert K. Nesbet '51 of Kirkland House and Lakewood, Ohio; and Anthony G. Oettinger '51 of Lowell House and New York City...