Word: rex
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Manhattan, young (22) heavyweight aspirant Rex Layne, over aged (36), onetime near-champion Jersey Joe Walcott, in a ten-round decision which had some enthusiasts rushing to tag Layne, fresh from Utah and still pretty clumsy, as heavyweight boxing's new "white hope...
...what begins as magic winds up in the foothills of monotony, the trip is smoothly enough managed, the chief travelers are fun to observe. Lilli Palmer-whether murmuring endearments or, cat in hand, muttering incantations-is seductive and vivacious, and even in the fast company of demons, Rex Harrison provides a mere human being with dash...
...Yale Glee Club will sing its usual famous numbers folk and college songs at the annual Harvard-Yale concert in Sanders Theate. Harvard will sing choruses from Cimaress's opera, if Matrimonio Segreto, a portion of Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex, and college songs...
Yale's ability to sing college songs is well known; but while Harvard is not famous to its renditions of Segreto or Rex, the Harvard Glee Club is known for its ability to render these renditions in a manner becoming to the world's better choral groups...
...Club threw aside the pleasant but essentially conventional and commonplace music which college glee clubs have always sung, divorced itself from the banjo and mandolin clubs of the College, and undertook the experiment of singing first-rate music, classical and modern. With Dr. Davison presentation of Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex, world premiere the Club suddenly came into prominence as one of America's outstanding men's choruses...