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Both the Crimson's rugby and cricket teams will take the field this afternoon. The varsity rugby team will challenge Cornell at Poughkeepsie and the cricket team will face Brown here...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rugby Team to Meet Cornell; Cricket Season Opens Today | 4/20/1957 | See Source »

After fiddling his way through the first movement of a Brahms concerto in Miami Beach, famed Violinist Isaac Stern, deeply annoyed by an unwanted metronome, insistent and offbeat, stalked off the stage, announcing: "That noise disturbs me. I cannot play with that competition!" His offending accompanist: a cricket that had taken up lodging in a nearby potted palm. After a five-minute search, workmen located the chirper, removed it so that Musician Stern, who had been mopping his brow backstage, could again return as solo soloist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 8, 1957 | 4/8/1957 | See Source »

Charles N. Brower: Adams; Harvard Honorary Scholarships; Fr. crew; House football; Squash; JV football; Cricket Club, Capt.; Crimson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1957 Permanent Class Committee Candidates | 3/4/1957 | See Source »

Other leaders: ABC-Paramount, Cricket. Peter Pan. The basic types of children's records-called "kidisks" by Billboard: ¶ Stories with music, usually a familiar fairy tale with its teeth pulled: e.g., the wolf doesn't eat Little Red Riding Hood; Snow White's stepmother sends her to the woods, but not to be executed. ¶ Pop songs with a "kiddie beat." i.e., reduced intensity, such as Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, or Sixteen Tons, its lyrics altered to explain that coal is mined so that houses can be heated. ¶ Educational or uplift records such...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Kidisks, 1956 | 12/24/1956 | See Source »

...down rhythm that takes its pace from boogie and hillbilly, rock 'n' roll and something known only to Elvis and his pelvis. As the belly dance gets wilder, a peculiar sound emerges. A rusty foghorn? A voice? Or merely a noise produced, like the voice of a cricket, by the violent stridulation of the legs? Words occasionally can be made out, like raisins in cornmeal mush. "Goan . . . git . . . luhhv . . ." And then all at once everything stops, and a big, trembly tender half smile, half sneer smears slowly across the CinemaScope screen. The message that millions of U.S. teen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Nov. 26, 1956 | 11/26/1956 | See Source »

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