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Whether this Crimson sextet can live up to McCurdy's prediction for the season should be known in two weeks. Harvard meets Providence College in Franklin Park Friday and visits Ivy League power Brown October...

Author: By Philip Ardery, | Title: Runners Could Prove 'Best Yet' | 9/29/1964 | See Source »

...much as $50,000 each and are often manned by antique dealers from the fashionable faubourgs, St.-Germain and St.-Honore. Their wares are mostly remarkable for their prices. On sale there last week was a velvet dog under glass for $100, a screen commemorating the 1900 Floradora Sextet for $80, a portrait of Lord Kimberley on glass for $160 and a small silver-plated coin case...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Home: TheNew Old | 9/11/1964 | See Source »

...cigarette box made from the newly dismantled Polo Grounds' foul pole; 2) four Polo Grounds seats, the same row in which he and his wife sat when they met in 1923; 3) a portable TV; 4) a color TV; and 5) a traveling case. There was a sextet of visiting Dodgers who rendered a birthday stanza more or less to the tune of The Band Played On. What more could a guy want? Since it was New York Mets Manager Casey Stengel, and he is, even at his age, still a dreamer, he thought maybe the Mets could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Aug. 7, 1964 | 8/7/1964 | See Source »

...Philips) soar from high spot to high spot, from Oo-Shoo-Be-Doo-Be to Ow. Dizzy does blithe acrobatics with his trumpet, then stands aside for the legendary expatriates Bud Powell and Kenny Clark to shine briefly on piano and drums. In the meanwhile, the Double Six, a sextet of jazz singers, chime in like an instrumental combo, and Mimi Perrin, who has an extraordinarily agile voice, even takes on a couple of solos meant for Charlie Parker's horn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: May 22, 1964 | 5/22/1964 | See Source »

GEORGE RUSSELL SEXTET: THE OUTER VIEW (Riverside). These six do surgery on only five songs and have You Are My Sunshine stretched out on the operating table for twelve minutes. The theme, of course, is only a starter for Don Ellis' questing trumpet, Paul Plummer's poetic tenor sax and Composer-Arranger Russell's contemplative piano. They cut the melody into ribbons that swirl together in unlikely harmonies, but there is a cool logic and distant beauty all the same...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: May 22, 1964 | 5/22/1964 | See Source »

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