Word: quartets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This helped get him an ornate nickname: "The Darling of the Gods." But it didn't strain his expanding fortune. In 1921 he and three oilmen, including flamboyant Harry F. Sinclair, founded the Continental Trading Co., a Canadian corporation. Through Continental, the quartet bought more than twelve million barrels of Texas oil for $1.50 a barrel and then sold it to other corporations in their control for $1.75. This gave them a tidy $3,000,000 profit which they invested in Liberty bonds and whacked up among themselves without informing either their stockholders or the Treasury Department...
...Bartok: Quartet No. 3 (New Music String Quartet; Bartok Recording Studios, 1 side, LP). Swiss Conductor Ernest Ansermet once described the late great Bela Bartok as "one who searches groaningly, even though he may appear to be smiling." Composed in 1927, his Quartet No. 3 is crammed with rhythmic and harmonic search, and a few groans and smiles too. With this excellent recording, made by the composer's son Peter, 25, all six Bartok quartets are now on wax. Performance: good...
...halfback posts are both held by sophomores, Don Kimtis at left half and Vern Wynott at right. Kimtis was the leading freshman ground-gainer last fall and can also pass reasonably well. The 160-pound Wynott was a high school sprint champion. This, incidentally, is an all-Massachusetts backfield quartet. The opposing quarterbacks, Bill Henry and Russell, are both from Worcester, and Henry's brother, Neil, is a spare Lion...
...quartet of speakers at the meeting will include: John Ciardi, Briggs-Copeland Assistant Professor of English Composition; Ralph W. Sullivan author of a bill, defeated last spring, to exclude Communists from Massachusetts schools and colleges; Theodore Brameld professor of educational philosophy at New York University; and Isadore H. Y. Muchnick '28, a member of the Boston School Board. The program will be moderated by Francis Keppel '38 Dean of the Faculty of Education...
...stories and it is only in analysis that the picture seems to sag a bit in the middle. The general effect, as one leaves the theater, is that "the very old number," as Maugham now likes to call himself, and everyone else who has had anything to do with "Quartet" have turned out a highly entertaining group of "one-acts...