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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most controversial aspect of the UAC's action, however, is its timing. Instead of waiting for the 1959 season to introduce its athlete-cheerleaders, the Council chose to plump them right into the middle of this fall's schedule. This is somewhat unfair to the present cheerleaders, who went out for the job with at least a tacit understanding that they would finish the season and had no forewarning of their sudden demise...

Author: By Kenneth Auchincloss, | Title: Egg in Your Beer | 11/4/1958 | See Source »

...looks now as if Tebaldi and not Callas will eventually occupy Milan's chicken coop. In a fit of fury at the accumulated grievances she felt she had suffered, Callas last spring fired off a statement that she and La Scala were through Tebaldi, operating on the somewhat confused principle that she did not want to "sing against anybody," refused to move in to take Callas' place. This season La Scala has neither one of them, but the betting is strong that Tebaldi will be back in Milan by next season. Recently, when Elsa Maxwell suggested a charity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Diva Serena | 11/3/1958 | See Source »

...occasional attempts to introduce visual fire to her performances, she inclines to what one critic called "the battering-ram approach." This was noticeable again in her Chicago Butterfly, in which, after committing suicide, she flung the knife resoundingly to the floor and died somewhat grotesquely, crawling the width of the stage in response to Pinkerton's thrice-called "Butterfly!" But her real failing, say her harshest critics, is not one of stagecraft but of emotional involvement. While some observers recall her on the verge of tears after a performance of Butterfly, others remember her picking herself up after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Diva Serena | 11/3/1958 | See Source »

Ravenel, incidentally, was somewhat shaken up defending against a pass late in the first half; and he did not play at all after this. Tackle Pete Briggs also retired from the game about the same time, with a thigh injury...

Author: By John P. Demos, | Title: Spirited Penn Team Tops Crimson, 19-6 | 11/3/1958 | See Source »

...first time since the Amherst game, varsity coach Bruce Munro will be able to start his two best fullbacks, Lanny Keyes and Captain Floyd Moloy, today. Keyes has recovered from the knee injury that kept him out of the Wesleyan game, while Moloy has recovered somewhat from his sprained ankle that has sidelined him for most of the season...

Author: By James W.B. Benkard, | Title: Quakers Hold Slight Edge In Soccer Contest Today | 11/1/1958 | See Source »

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