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Jayvee lineup: Gordon, g; Harrop, Morison, rf; Schock, lf; Langmann, rh; Mudd, ch; Ragle, lh; Chen, Soriano, ro; Gilbert, Jones ri; Wallace, cf; Jessner, lf; Gellert, lo. Freshman lineup: Snook, g; Shafer, rf; Darrell, lf; Sparrow, rh; Gabler, ch; Hansen, lh; Houston, ro; Weiss, ri; Plissner, ch; wolf, Johnson, li; Krogius, Gordon...
...Host. When Eugenio Cardinal Pacelli, Papal Secretary of State and Papal Legate to the 34th International Eucharistic Congress, held aloft the monstrance and pronounced the benediction, all was quiet along the Danube. A moment later boat whistles shrilled, church bells pealed, rockets burst in air and high on St. Gellert Hill a 60-foot cross sprang into light...
Collector Gellert says he heard Preacher's Belly in a small Alabama church one Sunday morning before the service began...
...purely by chance that Lawrence Gellert became seriously interested in Negro songs and problems. He had been a newspaper reporter, a secretary in Manhattan to the late Undertaker Frank E. Campbell, then a chorus boy in a Marilyn Miller production and a bush in The Miracle, a role which left him time to help with the publicity, sell programs in the lobby. The Miracle was in San Francisco when Gellert fell ill, left the company, went to Asheville, N. C. to convalesce. One of his first sights there was the corpse of a Negro two days dead dangling from...
...income provided by his father, a Hungarian who for years conducted a prosperous Manhattan importing & exporting business, Gellert began his social and musical investigations. For long trips he used a ramshackle old Jewett in which he kept a cot. More often he hiked through the backlands, stopping at sundown at some shack where he would ask the Negro owner if he could spend the night. Thus he won the confidence of Negroes, attended their baptisms, weddings, funerals, heard them sing songs they ordinarily would rather the white folk did not hear...