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Hyde had been used principally as a defensive left end, to relieve Crowley. This season the assignment may fall to six-foot-two Fritx Drill, former junior varsity end, Freshman standout Bill McCourt injured a knee during the summer in California and did not report for the first couple of weeks of fall practice...
Walter Winchell (Sun. 9 p.m., ABC). The commentator with the dentist's-drill voice returns after a seven-week rest...
...Exception: Trabert, 20, who was dropped last week from the Naval Reserve (seaman) because his tennis duties kept him from attending drill, is now subject to the draft...
Classical Drill. Says Tristano: "Our harmonies are strongly impressionistic. Melodically, I've tried to go beyond bop, which adheres largely to the given harmonic structure; we don't restrict ourselves to the chord when we play melody. Our rhythms are superimposed one on the other. Sometimes I play three different rhythms at once, while the other boys are each playing separate ones." The main idea: every man for himself...
Tristano, a Chicago boy, started improvising on the piano at four. His parents saw to it that he got formal lessons, but no one was impressed by Lennie's classical drill work, least of all Lennie. His eyes, weak at birth, became completely sightless after a bout with measles when he was ten. Lennie developed his musical ear in a school for the blind, graduated to Chicago's American Conservatory, where he took his B. Mus. "They thought my string quartet was 'refreshing,' " he says. "If they'd known it was really jazz, they...