Word: player
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...membership question was not so easily disposed of. Complaints in 1832 about the Sodality's serenading led the University to ask the four members to resign, but Henry Gassett '34, the flute player, refused. For two years he met with himself, wrote up the minutes, played to himself, paid dues, and probably drank with himself. His Pierian spirit gradually attracted other musicians so that they were strong enough to found the Glee Club in 1834, and to play for a Porcellian Club entertainment...
...think you can win at table stakes if you cannot win at limit poker. A sound player can win in any poker game...
Yardley has never forgotten the man who dealt out that helping hand. "I have consistently won at poker all my life," says he in The Education of a Poker Player (Simon & Schuster: $3.95). "I do not believe in luck-only in the immutable law of averages." So skilled did Yardley become in the mathematics of that immutable law that he was able to make his prowess pay off in other fields. He organized a U.S. cryptographic bureau during World War I, won a Distinguished Service Medal for breaking the Japanese diplomatic code, and told about it after...
Pull Up Some Wood. Amid his bouncing and shuffling teenagers, ex-Harmonica Player Clark is right at home. Personable and polite, he manages to sound as if he really means such glib disk-jockey patter as, "Let me pull up a hunk of wood and sit down with you." This air of sincerity is Clark's biggest attraction. Though ABC has mailed out 300.000 of his photographs since last summer, boyishly handsome Clark believes that most teen-agers see him less as a romantic idol than as the ideal big brother who understands their problems. On the problem...
When a full-time physician gives a violin concert, it's news. When he turns out to be a player of real stature, it's news indeed. This is precisely what happened yesterday afternoon at Paine Hall, where the Harvard-Radcliffe Music Club presented the father-and-son team of violinist Jerome Gross, eminent Cleveland surgeon, and pianist David Gross, a Lowell House sophomore...