Word: royale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Paced by Dick Porter and Royal El-fast, both Freshmen, the squad defeated one of the top-ranking of the 12 teams comprising the New England College Rifle League. In picking off its seventh win as against two setbacks, the Varsity moved up from fifth to second place is the League. Dave Knight and Bill Dunn, round out the quintet...
...market glutted by young musicians, almost too many symphony orchestras, and too little opera and ballet, the London musical scene presents a series of odd contrasts. Perhaps the most interesting feature is the spectacle of an opera company in acute growing pains. London's historic Royal Opera House in Covent Garden has long been without a regular opera company, but the queues of eager customers buy out every performance of such old standbyes as "Carmen" and "Manon" weeks in advance...
...Without including the minor ones, there are three first rate orchestras. The B.B.C., alternately under the direction of Sir Adrian Boult and Basil Cameron, is probably the best, giving regular weekly concerts and, during winter and summer seasons, nightly promenade concerts in a 10,000 seat monstrosity called the Royal Albert Hall. The London Symphony, under Malcolm Sargent, also performs once a week at the Albert; while the London Philharmonic since its fight with Beecham has been struggling along with guest conductors of no particular merit. Beecham and his new child, the Royal Philharmonic, have thus far been preoccupied...
...blanketed with snow, virgin white on the rooftops, instantly debauched into slush on the streets. Open horse-drawn coaches were abandoned in favor of the family's cosy Daimlers. But in drab Waterloo, draped with tattered bunting, crowds stood shivering six-deep to watch the farewells. Before a royal Pullman smothered in hyacinths and cyclamen, the Queen pecked at her relatives, King George exchanged a last affable word with the Prime Minister, and the Princesses in girlish blue and rose beamed with excitement. Just as the train pulled out for Portsmouth, the clouds parted and a shaft of feeble...
While the winter lasts, every weekend is festival time on Montreal's Mount Royal. Up the snow-cloaked mountain, rising from the heart of the city, youngsters pull sleds and toboggans (which early Canadians copied from the Micmac Indians). Skiers plod up through the powdery snow. A few, bundled under buffalo robes, ride up grandly in bright red carrioles behind teams of steaming horses...