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...lyricism than all but a couple of his contemporaries. Giant Steps Atlantic 1311) and My Favorite Things (Atlantic 1361) are two landmarks of his as-yet incompleted evolution. One of these contemporaries would surely be Miles Davis under whom both Sonny and Trane have played. Without being able to pin it down, I think that Miles has added a totally new dimension, a new esthetic if you will, to improvising. Part of the novelty seems to reside in a cultivation of sound and of melody virtually unfettered by rigid adherence to chord changes, a sort of metaphysical depth. I recommend...
...there were a few bright spots. Sophomore Fred Pereira, last year's Eastern College freshman wrestling champion gained the only pin of the evening against Howle Graves, co-captain of M.I.T. squad...
After a very poor start, Bob Kolodney rallied to turn in one of the best per formances of the evening. Down 1-11 midway through the second period, he fought back, almost gained a pin, and was finally defeated by the slim margin...
...alley dining room, the mothers have a little "coffee-and" to warm them up while they exchange the day's gossip. Then out to the floor, where 24, 48 or 60 shiny, electronically controlled alleys are laid out for them. Thanks to the invention of the automatic pin setters, there no longer are elderly winos or jaded kids back in the well, muttering as they set up the pins. The decor is bright and comfortable, a sharp contrast to the smoky atmosphere that once made bowling nearly as disreputable as pocket billiards. Reflecting the new tone, alleys have become...
...Sonar. By his own description, he was always the class cutup and showoff. Raised in suburban Boston, where his father ran a chain of movie theaters, he was forever going to school with phony bandages on his head, explaining that his mother had hit him with a rolling pin or, after the 1938 hurricane, that a falling oak had beaned him. Something had to be done, or so it seemed, and eventually Morse was sent off to the lower school of the Christian Scientist Principia College in Illinois. Peccadilloes there were punished as sins. When Bobby stole a dollar...