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...another single-wing power, Pennsylvania, 13-7. Though Coach-of-the-Year Charlie Caldwell lost all but one of his undefeated 1950 offensive team, the one man remaining was the key man: Halfback Dick Kazmaier, All-America triple-threat. Defensive standouts: Guard Brad Glass and 60-minute End Frank McPhee. Princeton now has the longest major winning streak in the nation (16 straight), and only Cornell stands in the way of its second straight Ivy League title...
...Denver, a statewide poll run by Edward Whittlesey, an ex-Gallup student, and William McPhee, an alumnus of the University of Denver National Opinion Research Center, found last June that Truman would win Colorado, as he did. But they got worried when their results disagreed with Gallup's, so they jiggered them for publication in the Denver Post- to show a Dewey victory. Said McPhee: "Whittlesey and I are thinking of going out of business...
...McPhee soon discovered that he was in one of the world's most musical lands. At that time, predominantly agrarian Bali (about half as large as Connecticut) had approximately 8,000 gamelans (native orchestras). More than 10% of the island's male citizens were musicians. Every night the little villages rang with the crash of cymbals and the brassy clang of gongs. (The five tones of the Balinese musical scale are represented by the syllables ding, dong, déng, doong and dang...
...large jégogan and anklung instruments bonged heavily and slowly like lazy ducks, while the players of the smaller gangsa and g'ndér scurried along like nervous humming birds. The music, in 4/4 jazzy rhythms, was melodious but completely lacking in harmony. To Colin McPhee it sounded "clear and transparent, like chimes floating away on the breeze...
Unlike the Western composer, a Balinese thinks of his music as purely functional, and never considers expressing an emotion. Only occasionally is there a suggestion of Western influence, as in the case of Durus, Colin McPhee's native 17-year-old houseboy. Durus composed and sang a song in the perfect ancient Javanese meter. His words...