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...getters, VPW and Embree, evinced a low-key happiness concerning their winning efforts. Embree erased any doubt that his previous high of 7 ft. 1/4 in. was a fluke by jumping the same height again Saturday. At first he commented only that his victory "was hep." But Harvard's finest high jumper even later mentioned that he was "looking forward to the upcoming IC4A's and Nationals...
Fairport Convention with Sandy Denny. Fairport Convention has been one of England's finest folk-rock groups. A few of its members split to help form the excellent folk group, Steeleye Span. I can't testify to what the group sounds like in its present incarnation, but the return of lead singer Sandy Denny means the group will have a solid and lovely voice up front. Her best-known original song is "Who Knows Where the Time Goes?" Rocker Brock Walsh plays second bill. Friday, May 10 at Sanders Theater...
...Harvard contingent, however, didn't go it alone. In keeping with the seven day celebration, handyman Everett recruited two of the finest trombone artists playing today: Phil Wilson, trombone teacher at Boston's Berklee College of Music and Woody Herman band soloist in the sixties, and Carl Fontana, one of the best trombonists in the West, a veteran of the Woody Herman and Stan Kenton bands of the fifties...
...villa on the Côte d'Azur and bearing a yacht's triangular sails the way a folded napkin might sit on a table. It is this still-life sea, a geometrical image of repose and wellbeing, that suffuses some of Gris's finest still lifes, like the View of the Bay (see color overleaf), with its firmly composed foreground of earth-colored guitar suavely undulating below the combed sky and receding gray headlands...
...scheme. Eighty years ago, the sin-thumping Rev. Charles Parkhurst plunged state investigators into New York City's Tenderloin district for ten months of astounding discoveries about police involvement in brothels and gambling houses. Since then, a major investigation has been made of New York's Finest at almost regular intervals (1913, 1930, 1950, 1971). Chicago has a less metronomic, but even gamier tradition...