Word: quintets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While an Indian quintet wailed the rhythm, a squaw named Evening Star one afternoon last week led a new brave named Eagle Chief arm-in-arm through a dance in the Great Falls, Mont. airport lobby. Eagle Chief, off the reservation, is New York's Governor Averell Harriman; the shuffles and wails were convincing demonstration that Harriman had sloughed off his "not active" role to hit the campaign warpath with all its handshaking, speechmaking, political backslapping and Indian ceremonials...
With a tweet, a toot, and an occasional twitter, the New York Wood-wind Quintet will give the second and last of the Holmes Hall Concerts this Sunday at 8 p.m. Included in the program are Beethoven's Quintet in E Flat, Opus 71a and Mozart's Divertimento Number Three...
...movie revolves around five thieves who plan and execute a neat robbery, using a little old lady's house as a temporary hideout. Their kindly landlady eventually discovers what the quintet actually is, but not one of the grim crooks summons enough nerve to eliminate this liability in old lace. Unable to kill her, the frantic thieves fall out. Luckily a railroad bridge is handy; bodies are dumped into passing freight trains with delightful regularity to the solemn accompaniment of pompous funeral marches...
...varsity basketball team failed to place a player on the 1956 All-Ivy League team selected this week by the League coaches. Yale, Brown, Dartmouth, Pennsylvania, and Cornell each had one man on the quintet...
Trumbull College downed Dunster's basketball team 49 to 46 Saturday at Yale in a generally dull game. Yale's fast break combined with a weak Crimson defense proved to be too much for Dunster's quintet. Nevertheless, Ed Cuffe copped high scoring honors with 27 points...