Word: hops
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stern taskmaster. Kiphuth demands all-out effort, is apt to roar at a swimmer dawdling through his paces: "If you want to take a bath, get a cake of soap." During a hopping exercise, the coach scowled scornfully at a boy who had twisted an ankle, barked: "Get up and hop on the good one." But his swimmers like him. Says one: "A wishy-washy coach who sympathizes with you is no damn good...
...beat the varsity's John Watkins on a 10-6 decision. Elsewhere, the Crimson's superiority was clearly marked. Dick Steinzig, wrestling for the first time this season at 123, edged Mike Duffy, 8-7. Sophomore Nick Estabrook rounded out the varsity scoring with a 9-7 decision over Hop Holmberg...
...this featherweight libretto, Composer Shostakovich set a blandly melodic score. The operetta's high points were provided by the choreography: a dream ballet in which a defeated schemer cavorts near one of the coveted apartments, a wild Lindy hop by two of the triumphant apartment hunters. Tame by Broadway standards, the dances proved to be crowd rousers on opening night. Otherwise, Composer Shostakovich's first excursion into musical comedy got only tepid applause. The Moscow cognoscenti diagnosed Cheryomushki as an unequal contest between composer and librettists, with Shostakovich's music clearly coming out the loser...
...during the summer and fall allow long freelance forays. "There was." according to one report, "a definite trend to Lederhosen" Wrote Friedrich W. Strothmann, head of Stanford's modern languages department and, with General Studies Chairman Robert A. Walker, originator of the Landgut Burg school: the students typically "hop on a motorcycle Thursday afternoon and come back Sunday from Venice and Salzburg after having seen a Mozart opera, a puppet play, an Everyman performance, on merely a piece of cheese and a little spaghetti. Faced with the choice between either a good meal or another tankful of gasoline...
...played in so close that he almost breathed down the second baseman's neck. He watched the batter's feet, knew where the ball would go, was off at the crack of the bat. When the fly dropped, he was waiting. Grabbing line drives on the short hop, he threw runners out at first. Player-manager of the Indians during his last ten seasons, he led them to their first World Championship (1920), in recent years served as batting coach at the Indians' spring training camp...