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...Dempsey Punch. It was a difficult choice, the judges said, but they were pleased with the winner. Said Artur Rubinstein : "A deep musician. There is hope for a truly great pianist." Seconded Olin Downes: "He has the Dempsey punch...
With a $3,000 prize in his pocket and a series of European concerts lined up, the winner was in no great hurry to flash the Dempsey punch on U.S. keyboards. Said Leon Fleisher, who has been playing quietly in Europe for two years: "Music in America is becoming a rat race. What all the towns . . . want these days on one program is a team of four pianos, a fiddler, a ballet dancer, and a juggler...
Colors: Dark Red and Blue Checker Checked Shirts; Red and Blue Diagonally Striped Oars. Varsity; Bow, Daniel Piccone; 2, Robert Dempsey; 3, Irving Miller; 4, Stere Littauer; 5, William Mushake; 6, Thomas McDonough; 7, Paul McNamara; stroke John McCall; cov, William Chapman. Race Times: Freshmen...
Just after 10 one morning last week, Mrs. Mary S. Dempsey, 38, and Mrs. Bertha E. Johnston, 53, teed off down the tree-lined seventh fairway of the Timuquana Country Club at Jacksonville. At the same time, at the nearby Jacksonville Naval Air Station, Ensign Charles L. Greenwood took off in a Corsair fighter on a training mission...
...Post-Mortems. By the time Spilsbury died in 1947, at 70, he had performed the stupendous total of 25,000 postmortems. "To the man in the street he stood for pathology as Hobbs stood for cricket or Dempsey for boxing or Capablanca for chess." When he gave a lecture, sensitive listeners swooned away, but hardier souls became his disciples forever. "To watch Sir Bernard . . . demonstrating on ... a kidney," said a nostalgic old student, "was-I should imagine-like watching Turner paint...