Word: roundness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Kenny Clarke Plays André Hodeir (the Kenny Clarke Sextet; Epic). A low-keyed collection of nine arrangements of modern jazz works (Thelonius Monk's 'Round Midnight, Miles Davis' Swing Spring), plus three original compositions by French Hipster Hodeir, Europe's leading jazz critic-composer (Oblique, On a Riff, Cadenze). The emphasis here is on intricately woven ensemble playing, shot through with some fine flights of "written improvisation...
...specimens submitted by the doctors. All were bafflingly negative. After an average of a month in the hospital, most of the airmen were rated well enough to return to quarters. But before the last were out, many of the first cases were back in the hospital. The second time round, their aches and pains and liver enlargement were worse. Many were kept in the hospital as long as six months. Then, rated still unfit for duty, several were sent out of the service on medical discharges...
Only a pathological optimist would have wagered a wooden nickel on U.S. chances to bring home the Davis Cup. The best men U.S. Captain Bill Talbert could muster for the challenge round against Australia were young (22) Barry MacKay, U.S. intercollegiate champion, and Old (34) Master Vic Seixas, who left his best tennis on the center court at Forest Hills back in 1954. Aussie Captain Harry Hopman made the most of a bountiful supply of stars by calling on 22-year-old Mai Anderson, proud owner of the U.S. championship, and Ashley Cooper, another youngster (21) with years of experience...
Freshman Sam Huntington provided one of the surprises of the meet, as he won his first match at 167, pinning Buffalo's Foster in 1:59. The luck of the draw pitted him against Pitt's National Collegiate Champion, John DeWitt, in the next round. DeWitt proved too experienced for the freshman, throwing...
Only three of the varsity wrestling team's ten entrants could advance beyond the first round in the 26th annual Wilkes Open Wrestling Tournament at Wilkes-Barre during the vacation, but these three combined to place the Crimson ninth among the 54 colleges represented...