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...minute and a half after coming off the bench, Sam Rodd saved the varsity soccer team's undefeated Ivy record yesterday on the Business School Field. With 7:30 left in the rugged struggle, Rodd headed the ball past Indian goalie Duke Ellington for the winning score in a 2-1 Crimson victory...
Rodd's tally, scored off a fine cross by wing Mike Kramer, climaxed a sustained Crimson onslaught that produced several agonizing near misses. Dartmouth's three- and four-fullback defense, backed by Ellington's acrobatie goaltending, held off the Crimson's attack until it seemed that no amount of hell-bent scrambling would break the 1-1 deadlock...
...Study in Frustration: The Fletcher Henderson Story (Columbia. 4 LPs). The man who anticipated Goodman, Basie and Ellington by building the granddaddy of the great swing bands, in a sampling of the incendiary brews he poured from the bandstand for 15 wonderful years (1923-38). Composer Henderson (whose "frustration" was that his greatest success came as an arranger with Goodman rather than as a leader) collected the most extraordinarily gifted group of sidemen in jazz history, and most of them are on triumphant display-Trumpeters Louis Armstrong and Roy Eldridge, Saxmen Coleman Hawkins and Benny Carter, Trombonists J. C. Higginbotham...
...Indians like to use a "four-full-back" defense, with one man playing fairly close to the goalie and three more lined up father out, Dartmouth goalie Duke Ellington is a good one. On offense, wing Keith Streuli has been a standout...
Paris Blues (United Artists) has something for the tourists: autumn in Paris. It has something for the cats: regressive jazz by Duke Ellington. It has something for the newspaper ads: a hint of interracial romance. It has something for the marquee: Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Sidney Poitier, Diahann Carroll, Louis Armstrong. All it lacks is something to pull these parts into a sensible whole...