Word: players
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...clubhouse, bit into sandwiches, tried to wash them down with a glass of milk. Some ate sugar lumps to steady nerves. The tension infected the crowd: the grapevine spread that someone's putter was getting hot, and the crowd drifted from threesome to threesome looking for the player who would fight...
Since there are not enough men in most of the Houses this summer to organize regular House teams and leagues, House uniforms will more than likely be filled by more than one player from other Houses of the Yard. At present no restrictions are being put on the membership of the organizing ball clubs...
...hours later, when all the clubbing and drubbing was over, the college boys had bowed to the clubmen. The flashiest player on the field was not a collegian or a graduate, but 17-year-old Billy Hooper, who looked out of place among his nine older Mount Washington teammates, but was right at home in the tussling. Hooper made half of his team's goals, scored the point that broke a tie 2½ minutes before the game's end. Score: Mount Washington 6, Johns Hopkins...
...came to discussing his own music, Composer Shostakovich still seemed shaken and bewildered by the public recanting he had recently made for the sins of his Ninth Symphony, which was condemned in Russia as lacking in "ideological conviction." His words sounded as if they had rolled out of a player piano. Said he: "Some people write music for their own pleasure, but I don't. I write to serve the nation. The Soviet composer must serve the people; there must be no intrusion of the personal element in his approach. . . . Everything is bad music that is not directed toward...
Theodore C. Backe '48, of Holworthy Hall and Bay Shere, Long Island, was elected Varsity tennis captain for the coming year after the Yale matches last week. Backe was number one player on this year's Varsity, winning several matches in the course of the year's disastrous 2 and 7 season...