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...Ormandy announced that, for the opening of the orchestra's summer season at Robin Hood Dell in Fairmount Park, the Pennsylvania National Guard had agreed to supply three 37-mm. anti-tank guns. The local musicians' union demanded that, since cannon are included in Tschaikowsky's score, a union man be hired to shoot them. Very well, replied the Dell management. But the orchestra wished to select a performer "who can play the cannon with due regard to its musical value." So there would be an audition for percussion men who wanted the job of "Symphony Bombardier...
...rowing event for minor-league college crews; outrowing eight other eights over the Henley distance (one mile and five-sixteenths); on the Connecticut River at Springfield, Mass. Marietta finished second, Springfield third. ∧Long-swatting little Ben Hogan of Fort Worth, Tex.: the third annual Goodall Round Robin golf tournament-in which each of 15 invited pros scores plus one for every hole he wins, minus one for every hole he loses to each of the other 14 with a score of plus 23; over Long Island's Fresh Meadow links. To Winner Hogan went $1,000, upping...
...country correspondent for a string of six Northwest papers, James once did a piece about Carroll Kjellman, Rochester citizen who said he had seen a robin tugging at a worm in the ground. The worm stretched until it snapped out of the earth, knocked the robin cold. Wrote Dave James: "Faced by a committee of angleworm lovers, Carroll Kjellman ... admitted he planted strips of rubber in the soil. . . . 'I'm sorry I caused the robin to be knocked out . . .' Kjellman said...
...undefeated Yale golfers, headed by brilliant Ed Meister, arrived in town last night to get in a full day of practice before the weekend's round robin play opens at Belmont tomorrow. Yale meets Dartmouth and Brown before finally playing the Crimson on Saturday afternoon...
...choice. Completely unnerved by the exams, he diligently reads the reams of material with which the denizens of University Hall flood the mail. These loyal members of Harvard's official staff all through the winter repress their urge for self-expression knowing that with the first spring robin will come the chance to draw a detailed "Letter to Incoming Freshmen...