Word: roy
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chromatics & Hash. The cantata itself had been whooped up, among others, by Composer Roy Harris ("a sense of strength ... I wonder where Grandstaff heard choral singing so brilliant"), and Big Spring bigwigs had watered down the Tennessee authorities. Last week, accompanied by a grim, 200-lb., two-gunned Big Spring sheriff, R. E. Wolf, and a smiling Shine Philips, Composer Grandstaff was flown to Texas by private plane to hear his cantata sung...
...Hollywood's wildcatters had been so lucky. Directors John Huston and Mervyn Le Roy, and Actor Dennis O'Keefe and several oilmen recently sank $194,000 into a 10,500-ft. dry well near Inglewood, Calif. Even those who had made strikes would not necessarily turn them into profits; they still had the problem of operating the well and marketing the oil. As one California oilman put it: "I can give you an oil well which is actually producing a good amount of oil, and bet you'll go broke if you don't know what...
...Page got the victory yesterday, but the Dodgers didn't give up without a fight. Behind 4 to 1 in the ninth, Luis Olmo and Roy Campanella homered off Page's offerings. But the third successive time, one team came out one run too short...
Page entered the last half inning with a three run lead, and once again a Coleman insurance run proved necessary. With none out, Olmo drove a homer into the left field stands. Page disposed of Snider easily, but Roy Campanella lofted a high fly which just cleared the top of the left field wall to make the score...
...Roy F. Gootenberg '49 1GPA, chairman of the University chapter of the AVC, has announced that his group will fight with all its strength against the VA ruling...