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...aviation after graduating from high school in Bradford, Pa. in 1898. After a short hitch in the Spanish-American War, he went to Harvard instead of Yale because his teetotaling father believed that there were fewer saloons in Harvard Square than in New Haven. Piper was a star hammer thrower, graduated cum laude in 1903. He spent the next eleven years as a construction engineer, went back to Bradford in 1914 and became a successful oil-well operator. When the Taylor Brothers Aircraft Corp. moved to Bradford, Piper became a director, though he had little interest in aviation...
...Theatre has already completed casting for its production of Hammer of the Mountain, an original, experimental play by Firman Houghton, editor of Audience magazine. Stephen Aaron '57, assistant director of Loeb, will direct the play. Rehearsals begin...
This weakness was not in evidence in the allegro molto movement of Opus 110; Mr. Fischer's touch was alternately feather-light and hammer-heavy, in the right places. Things went down-hill from there on in, however. The slow movement lacked nuances of expression, and the final fugue was marred by a memory lapse, which, though not a fatal flaw in itself, may have caused the pianist's failure to inject the called-for nuovovivente. Still, the tight-knit cluster of highly emotional notes which closes the Sonata was very impressive...
...Water Boy, an old Negro work song, but she has in her repertory some 200 tunes, including This Land Is Your Land, Dark as a Dungeon, Great Historical Bum, Pay Day at Coal Creek. She is a keening Irishwoman in Foggy Dew, a chain-gang convict in Take This Hammer, a deserted lover in Lass from the Low Country. Her dark, handsomely pliant voice has none of the whisky rawness long idolized in such untutored folk singers as Lead Belly or Bessie Smith. But what she may lack in sheer, gutsy exuberance, Odetta more than makes up with immense power...
...version of Faulkner's Sanctuary. What distinguished her from the start was the meticulous care with which she tried to re-create the feeling of her folk songs; to understand the emotions of a convict in a convict ditty, she once tried breaking up rocks with a sledge hammer...