Word: leonarde
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...G.I.s at Fort Dix were bored with the kind of entertainment the Army put on for them and decided to make some of their own. The idea was catchy. Before long, they swelled from a quartet to an octet, then to a chorus of 16. By the time Lieut. Leonard de Paur joined the regiment in Arizona, the 372nd Infantry's Glee Club had 55 members, were singing war songs and Negro spirituals with a fair amount of polish, and the Army finally put them on special duty, to do nothing but sing...
...last week's revival, instead of Blitzstein at a solitary piano, there was a white-tied Leonard Bernstein conducting a tiny orchestra. Bernstein did well by The Cradle's sometimes crude, sometimes clever music. But time had been less kind to The Cradle itself. It seemed more strident and less exciting; it had also become less topical. Its cockiness about labor- which had led it to treat the bosses with contemptuous laughter rather than bitter words-seemed early New Deal, not postwar. The Cradle's stagecraft, far from seeming daring, almost seemed dated. Only where Blitzstein...
Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2 p.m., ABC). Verdi's Il Trovatore, with Cloe Elmo, Stella Roman, Jussi Bjoerling, Leonard Warren...
...yard freestyle: Won by Busby (H), second Leonard (MIT), third Edgar (MIT). Time...
M.I.T. will counter with backstroker Bon Dann, breaststroker Bob Polletier, and sprinters Jim Leonard, Carl Mellin, and Jack Searle. Brown and Wesleyan accounted for the two Tech defeats, while its lone win was registered over Amherst...