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...kept trying to cut the number down to three, but Impresario Kelly held firm, and eight it was. She opened with a Mozart aria from The Abduction from the Seraglio, which she did in harsh, mediocre style. With two arias from Bellini's I Puritani, Callas hit her stride, rippling down her famed arpeggios, her tone pure and vibrant...
...Williams men will survive; survive the attacks of other-directed America, as long as we can watch the last of the magnificent individualists stride to the plate, give the raspberry to the fans, and begin the swing which ends on the other side of the right-field wall
Mighty men stride the stage, and Churchill treats them as his equals; he writes about them with the sure instinct of a man who has more than once painfully sweated out decisions as great as any of theirs. Marlborough. Nelson. Napoleon...
Hunch Player. Just as he hit his stride, Cox decided to quit. He got caught between the lines in a pitched battle between "downtown" alumni and Coach "Cowboy" Johnny Cherberg, and when his own eligibility proved to be at stake, he packed his gear and moved to Minnesota. National Collegiate Athletic Association rules kept Transfer Student Cox on the sidelines for a long, tough season. Then he busied himself by getting married once more. But his new wife has been forced to share him with his first love: football. Bobby still mixes his plays with fine disdain for classic strategy...
With most of the positions fairly well settled, Yovicsin felt that his squad was still a week away from where he would like it to be, but he predicted that the Crimson would hit its stride in time for the opener...