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...Fran Meyer, Sophomore from the environs of Cleveland, who was ineligible for Freshman play two years ago, and who was a dropped Freshman this winter, has also reported, and if the scholastic barriers are surmounted, will prove a valuable addition to the squad. He is faster and can pivot quicker than practically anyone on the floor at present, and has a good basket eye. His loss to the 1937 Freshman team was a severe one, but if he is available next winter, it will delight the Fesler heart...
Because Frederic François Chopin was ethereally pale and consumptive, because his music has always had a romantic appeal for ladies, the tendency has been for many a layman to regard him as a little man of music, a sentimentalist whose place is in the parlor. Chopin acquires great stature when played by great musicians. An unreserved admirer is British Pianist William Murdoch who this week tells Chopin's story in a good detailed biography.* Many a writer has made Chopin seem doomed from boyhood. According to Pianist Murdoch, his early days were easy compared to those...
Last week Manhattan's Whist Club, lawmaking body for U. S. contract bridge players, posted a new scoring system to replace the one in use since 1932. Result of studies by the Whist Club, London's Portland Club, the Commission Française du Bridge of Paris and many a bridge expert, the new code is effective all over the world after March 31. Important changes...
Going into the overtime, William Lee scored a one-handed field goal for the Crimson, while Clinton Frank tallied on a foul for Yale. Then, with one minute left, Lewis A. McGowan gave the Crimson a 30 to 27 lead on a long shot, while Fran Gallagher brought the Yale total to 29 as the game ended...
Francis' unattractive wife, Claude, was kept too busy bearing him seven children to give him any cause for jealousy. But the beauteous Françoise de Foix, one of his mistresses, did. Francis' royal handling of an embarrassingly bourgeois situation became a classic. The intruder, surprised by Francis' unexpected knock, took shelter in the fireplace, which was screened by leafy boughs. Francis, as if unaware that anything was amiss, treated Françoise in his usual fashion, then relieved himself into the fireplace...