Word: players
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...than just another orchestra that happens to come from France: it has a tonal quality all its own. To most U.S. ears, used to lush, soaring strings, France's finest sounded a little thin. True to French tradition, the woodwind choir was outstanding (many a top U.S. woodwind player learned his trade from the French). Some in the audience missed the drilled precision of U.S. orchestras. Explained Director Barraud: "Our musicians are individualists. I don't mean that one violinist will be pushing up his bow while another is pulling his down, but there are differences in technique...
Died. Samuel Southey Hinds, 73, silver-haired Hollywood character actor (Destry Rides Again, Call Northside 777); in Pasadena, Calif. A great-grandson of British Poet Laureate Robert Southey, Hinds was a millionaire lawyer who went broke in 1929, turned to the movies as a bit-player, in time became known to millions of moviegoers by playing the distinguished man of wealth he had once been in real life...
Died. George McConnell, 93, oldtime Indian fighter and baseball player (legend credits him with originating the curve ball); in Los Angeles. Some 70 years ago, Billiard Fan McConnell reputedly discovered that "English" could be used on baseballs, then organized a ball team that was undefeated for several seasons before batters caught...
...still working on fundamentals," moaned player-coach Willfill S. Fiend '49 yesterday as the CRIMSON gridiron extravaganza gave a preliminary two chugs and a wheeze and rolled downhill toward the Dartmouth tilt...
...original inspiration for the Radcliffe statements was an urge to knit for the pennant-winning Braves. But the baseball season is over now, and apparently the quartet from Northampton rates a Harvard man in October a better bet than a baseball player next...