Word: dicks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, music-lovers drifted leisurely through the dark green marble-pillared rotunda toward the glass-ceilinged East Garden Court for the fifth and final concert of Dick Bales's annual American Music Festival...
From the time he heard his first concert in Philadelphia at the age of twelve, Virginian Dick Bales knew he wanted to be a conductor. After high school he went to Rochester's Eastman School of Music. In 1940, after he had toured with a WPA orchestra and studied on a Juilliard fellowship, Serge Koussevitzky picked him as one of five outstanding young U.S. conductors, packed him off to the new Berkshire Music Center for private instruction...
...Harvard's five entries (Yale has 19), a first place is fairly unlikely. Freshman Bill Geick (broad jump), Charlie Durakis (high hurdles), and Dick Weiskopf (100), and varsity sprinter Harvey Thayer (220) are all number three in their events on the form chart, and John Cogan, the Crimson's other varsity representative, is number four in the two mile...
Crimson freshman star, Dick Weiskopf was t have run in both the 220 and the 100 on the basis of his performance in the Yale meet, which served as a time trial for the international event. He recently pulled a muscle, however, and it was thought best to use him only in the 100, and to replace him in the longer sprint event with Thayer who had placed second behind Gottlieb in the varsity sprint at New Haven...
...snow-covered range is more successful and easily the most exciting part of the book. In a first-rate section of more than 100 pages, Curt's pursuit of the cat becomes a thriller with symbolic moral overtones that will remind some readers of Moby Dick. The cunning of the cat, the cold, the lack of food, the growing image in Curt's mind of the panther as the embodiment of sinister evil and vengefulness, change the hunter into the hunted. After three numbing days & nights, the weakened, frightened, half-crazed Curt goes over a cliff...