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...varsity will find itself with a height disadvantage, as the Yalies' hopes for victory will rest squarely on the shoulders of Giant Gerry Glynn (6' 10"). Glynn, who towers two inches above the Crimson's tallest man, Griff McClellan, has averaged 17 points per game for the season. Another player with a double figure scoring record is Dan McFadden who has averaged 12 points per game for Yale...
Tall Story, latest comedy by Howard Lindsay and Russell Grouse (Life with Father), pleased Philadelphia (and was bought immediately by Hollywood). Adapted from a rather more serious novel (The Homecoming Game), the story concerns an overly ethical professor of ethics (Hans Conried) faced with flunking a star basketball player before the big game. A fellow facultyman: Playwright Marc (The Green Pastures) Connelly, making one of his occasional appearances as an actor. Wrote the Philadelphia Inquirer's Henry T. Murdock: "An evening of hearty laughter with no complicating complexes." Opens on Broadway...
...Sonata in C. K.521, Hindemith's Sonata for Four Hands, three works by Schubert (who wrote more four-hand music than any other major composer). In some pieces, Demus played "low" (the bass part) and Badura-Skoda "high" (the treble), in others they switched positions. Since the bass player invariably tends to underpedal to avoid thickness, the pedaling throughout was done by the treble player. When they intertwined their arms in passages of labyrinthine difficulty, the pair presented the bewildering aspect of a two-headed Siva...
Uncle Miltie's starting team has been none too powerful, but his bench is as strong as any in the league; this week's player is Gospel Singer Mahalia Jackson...
Also next weekend is the Club's more advanced competition for the Harry Cowles Trophy, which honors the late Crimson squash coach. Since the title was established 12 years ago, no Harvard player has won the tournament, which is on a par with a national amateur championship. This year there are no varsity team members entered...