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Author: By Jack Rosenthal, | Title: Band's Eight-Foot Bass Drum Expires From Age, Cold | 1/29/1955 | See Source »

...drum did not decline unnoticed, however, Guide Cautelli, guest conductor of the Boston Symphony asked to use the drum last month--for Verdi's Requiem. Now, the instrument will get a requiem of its own, from the Band. Nothing morbid or elaborate, you understand, but "winter green...

Author: By Jack Rosenthal, | Title: Band's Eight-Foot Bass Drum Expires From Age, Cold | 1/29/1955 | See Source »

Once people became aware of his unpredictable nature, they were filled with morbid curiosity to find out what emotion he would bring to the surface in response to a loaded question. Like a born actor, Byron guessed what they were after, rarely disappointed their expectations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: TheMost Amiable Monster | 1/3/1955 | See Source »

...with a mixed feeling of revenge and morbid curiosity that we put sociological tactics to use in determining how the Harvard element would react if suddenly placed in our shoes (green suede). Donning our best overalls we approached ten or eleven of the more proper looking specimens up for the football game and rendered an oral examination consisting of one question: "Are you from Harvard...

Author: By Linc Reavis, | Title: "FAR ABOVE THE RIVER CHARLES. . . CORNELLIAN ANSWERS HARVARD SKEPTIC'S QUERIES" | 10/15/1954 | See Source »

...hard time handling them. He claims, for instance, that "if I go into a room where there are a hundred people, and one of them doesn't like me, I'll know it, and I have to get out of there." This is possibly a somewhat morbid and perhaps flamboyant exaggeration of his condition, but his friends say that he often does seem to flounder in a sea of impressions. It is to resist them, they say, that he puts up his arbitrary, antisocial front...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Tiger in the Reeds | 10/11/1954 | See Source »

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