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...every U.S. city can boast dancing girls or waters, but dozens have "graduated from the Sunday band-concert stage to more ambitious musicmaking. Cities with major symphony orchestras try to find pleasant outside work for the musicians during the summer months. Philadelphia seats them in Robin Hood Dell (June 21-July 28), Manhattan in Lewisohn Stadium (June 20-July 30), Boston on the Esplanade overlooking the Charles River (July 5-Aug 20), Chicago in suburban Ravinia Park, Los Angeles in spectacular Hollywood Bowl...
...Inter-House program is being planned partly on the basis of the popularity of the Yard Intramural Championship debate tournament, Parkhurst said. Over 40 teams from most of the entries of the freshman dorms entered in the round-robin tournament...
...Robin Hood. In London, Gerald Bolitho was sentenced to 21 months in jail despite his plea that in stealing a rare manuscript from the British Museum he did the museum a good turn, "because I have shown up a defect in their system...
...official occasions he came out in full marshal's regalia: robin's-egg-blue trousers with yellow stripes, dark green tunic and bright red sash. Underneath the blouse, he wore a brass plate to carry the weight of his vast collection of decorations. A horrified British officer noted that Britain's cherished Order of the Bath was hanging just about where the marshal's navel would be. The only medals Zhukov seemed genuinely proud of were the three gold stars of his thrice-awarded Hero of the Soviet Union...
...Robin Roberts of the Philadelphia Phillies was within two outs of an opening day no-hitter yesterday when Alvin Dark of the world champion New York Giants singled in the ninth. Roberts gave up two more hits but hung...