Word: roy
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This unusually long season grows increasingly difficult from the Brown meet on, and stiff competition can be expected from the Alumni and the Providence Boys' Club in the preliminary meets. Such former Crimson luminaires as Roy Wallace '35, George Scott '34, and Robert Fallon '33, in the freestyle events; Edward Stowell '34 in the backstroke; and Victor Leventritt '34 in the breastwork should provide an exacting test for the varsity; and in Matthew Chrostowski and John Higgins, National record holders in the sprints and breastwork respectively, the Boys' Club can vaunt itself of two prominent candidates for next year...
...chief Canadian guardian of the quintuplet "Wards of the King," Minister Croll approved later last week a contract with Fox Films for production of The Country Doctor starring the Dionne quintuplets and based on the life of Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe...
...fact that he was born 38 years ago in an Oklahoma log cabin which his father hewed by hand, of his own early years spent farming in California's San Gabriel Valley. At the age when most would-be composers are hard at their technical training, Roy Harris was soldiering. When the War was over he went West again, drove a farm truck. He studied briefly at the University of California where his first interest was philosophy, which he deserted when he found it was just "word juggling." He turned gropingly toward music because...
Even those who fail to appreciate him admit that Roy Harris has worked like one possessed. His first compositions were as crude as a schoolboy's but within three years he had written an Andante which was performed at the Philharmonic Stadium concerts. That was followed by a Guggenheim Fellowship which gave him two years' study in Paris. There he picked up sophisticated technique but he kept his drive and a bit of the ungainliness which he has never quite outgrown. Luck was with him when rich Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge sponsored his chamber music, when her imports...
Swart, bulky United Air Lines Pilot Roy H. Warner, who stayed with his burning plane even after his clothing was ignited on a 1930 flight from. Boise, Idaho, to Pasco, Wash., managed to land with one wing completely eaten away, saved his mail before an explosion demolished the wreck...