Word: player
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Robert Owen '58, of Leverett House and St. Louis Park, Minn., has been awarded the Donald Angier Memorial Trophy for the most improved player on the Harvard hockey team. Robert McVey '58, of Leverett House and Hamden, Conn., has won the John Tudor Memorial Cup for being named the team's most valuable player. Owen played defense and McVey was a wing on this year's Ivy League championship team...
...Harlem Globetrotters, currently touring the U.S. Donegan, who cannot read music, hit the big time with a recording of Rock Island Line (on the London label in the U.S.), whose spoken introduction, beat and intonation copy almost exactly the style of a Negro ex-con and twelve string guitar player, the late Huddie ("Lead Belly") Ledbetter...
...another, Orpheus Descending achieves everything that Tennessee Williams does well and even does uniquely: whiplashing recrimination, harshly funny humor, the corrosive bite of evil, the shaking fingers of fright. Actress Maureen Stapleton has some extraordinary moments as the wife, Cliff Robertson some quietly effective ones as the guitar player. But, taken as a whole, the play fails, and for three reasons: a faultiness of structure, an obsessiveness of attitude, an empurpling theatricalism...
...foot, 5 inch Law student's tremendous reach gave him almost complete control of the court, and his widely varied game, combining great power with deft touch, kept Place from ever getting set. The Crimson player contested every point, however, and the match was much closer than the score indicated...
Ufford was the tournament's second seeded player behind defending champion Ben Heckscher, who was forced to default in the second round because of pre-vacation tennis practice. A former varsity squash captain, Ufford is one of the country's leading players...