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...towering man in the red silk pants pranced out on the stage, his great eyes wide, his mouth an elongated O of wonder, his arms moving in ritualistic, angular figurations. The music seemed to course through the long, flexible arc of his brown body like water through a garden hose; occasionally a soft cry broke through his half-open lips. Thus 6 ft.-6 in. Geoffrey Holder-at 26 a solo dancer of the Metropolitan Opera, successful painter, actor, singer and choreographer-last week made his debut as director-star of his own calypso show, and introduced slightly dazed Brooklyn...
...Hose in the Horns. Other selections: a concerto in which the piano soloist is under the impression that he is supposed to be playing Grieg, while the conductor is concentrating on Tchaikovsky and the orchestra is working on Roll Out the Barrel; a second concerto, written by Mozart's father Leopold for alpenhorn and played on two lengths of garden hose by Britain's distinguished Hornist Dennis Brain; a set of variations for wheezy winds, featuring Hoffnung himself playing a tuba so big that it runs on wheels and requires built-in bellows to supply enough wind...
...establish harmony with its physical environment, it has succeeded with the University Administration and even with the students. The Department feels it does not have any more trouble with students at Harvard than with any other Cambridge section of comparable population. They have not been called out to hose down a riot since before the war and as Captain Francis Connelly said, "We tend to sympathize with the boys having fun rioting but we are forced to assume a serious position since the calling out of equipment for riots or false alarms can seriously endanger the rest of the community...
Detective Story. In Buffalo, ordered to clear the streets of underworldlings after an outbreak of wrongdoing, police dredged up Randolph Benson, charged him with disorderly conduct after they searched him, found he was equipped with a knife, a length of rubber hose and a volume entitled: The Blue Book of Crime...
...Teds rioted for three consecutive nights, crashed in the door of one theater, streamed through neighborhood streets and taverns, smashed windows, threw bottles, heaved automobiles over on their sides. In Manchester the Teds ripped out the seats of a movie house, tossed light bulbs about, and turned a fire hose on objecting members of the audience...