Word: rowes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like a Ballplayer. A true basso cantante (singing bass), he had enough flexibility to invade roles often sung by baritones without losing the power that enabled him to reach the back row without straining. And with his big voice he had the elusive personal magnetism and the dignity that grand opera demands. For a whole generation of operagoers, Pinza's Don Giovanni-in richly decorated doublet and single gold earring-was the virile embodiment of everything the role implied. Although Pinza could barely read music, he had a prodigious musical memory and a bone-deep sense of musical taste...
...Republican: "One who believes in and pressed for action on the 1956 Republican platform." Vice President Nixon reminded a Washington convention of the budget-whacking U.S. Chamber of Commerce (see BUSINESS) that "the budget is high, but it is a balanced budget, and the third balanced budget in a row." And Defense Secretary Charlie Wilson huffed that he was getting fed up with his C. of C. friends who were complaining about the budget when they had never had it so good...
This marked the third time that Bryden has won the prize making it the first time that it has ben won by the same man three years in a row...
...varsity can win this race, as they did last year, it will establish itself along with Yale and Cornell as one of the top crews in the East. But to accomplish this end, the Crimson will have to row its best race of the year. As coach Harvey Love commented, "we rowed well against Syracuse and Princeton; we will have to do even better tomorrow afternoon...
...three undefeated lightweight crews in the East will meet tomorrow afternoon when Yale, Princeton, and the Crimson will row for the Goldthwait Cup at 6 p.m. on the Charles River...