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This year's team will be improved over the Crimson quintet which won only five games last season, Shepard feels. Six lettermen have returned, including four juniors with the important first year of varsity play behind them. Several of last year's freshmen are also expected to help the team with their height and rebounding ability...

Author: By Jere Broh-khan, | Title: Varsity Quintet Opens Nightly I.A.B. Practices | 11/4/1952 | See Source »

...Henry's Full House (20th Century-Fox) might have been entitled Quintet, for it takes its cue from the successful Somerset Maugham omnibus movies, Trio and Quartet. It is a grab bag based on five short stories from the popular, prolific pen of William Sydney Porter.*With five different sets of directors, writers and stars and with chatty narration by John Steinbeck. O. Henry's Full House is long on box-office names, sometimes short on the natty irony that O. Henry gave his trick tales of Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Sep. 22, 1952 | 9/22/1952 | See Source »

Hooray for Captain Spaulding (Groucho Marx; Decca LP). Six zany songs by the team of Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby, best known for such ditties as Three Little Words. Groucho's audible leer, set off by a barbershop quintet, works over Omaha, Nebraska, Dr. Hackenbush and the immortal Show Me a Rose ("Or leave me alone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Pop Records, Aug. 11, 1952 | 8/11/1952 | See Source »

...probable size of a J.V. quintet would be about ten men, while the varsity would be cut to about 15 players instead of the 20 or more who worked out with the squad at different times this year. The Jayvees could also provide the varsity with needed scrimmages...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Getchell Denies Rumors About JV Basketball Team | 5/9/1952 | See Source »

Easy Does It! (Benny Goodman; Capitol, 6 sides). The lion of the licorice stick in some of the best of his more intimate work with the trio, quintet, sextet and septet. Includes Puttin' on the Ritz, Henderson Stomp, Makin' Whoopee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Pop Records, Apr. 28, 1952 | 4/28/1952 | See Source »

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