Word: stringed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Chet Boulris, who received a hip bruise, and fullback Sam Halaby, with a pulled chest muscle, did not operate at full speed today, but will probably be ready for Saturday's game. Bob Foster, the first-string center, also took a light workout, but is nursing a pulled muscle. Second-string fullback Chris Hauge has an ankle sprain that may sideline him for a week...
...Budapest String Quartet: Almost as unlikely as Wyatt Earp at Carnegie Hall, but much more welcome, the famed chamber-music ensemble made its debut on TV last week in an hour's recital of pieces by such rare television tunesmiths as Beethoven. Debussy and César Franck. Manhattan's WCBS and Metropolitan Educational Television Association deserved the hosannas they got for putting on a rare treat. They also fell into a pitfall of TV culture worship. It occurred to no one to point out that chamber music was returning to the living room, where it started...
...devlopment by Yang and Lee is only the most recent in a seemingly inexhaustible string of ideas to issue from the Institute, and yet there could be no incident to better illustrate the fundamental nature of the Institute for Advanced Study than this one. Yang and Lee are young men working at the very fronties of one of the most complex areas of study. In the jargon of modern education, Yang is the "teacher," while Lee is the "student," and yet it was the combined work of these two men which won the Prize. This, in brief, is the essence...
...College football ran true to form for a change, but some of the best teams had a tough time saving the oddsmakers' scalps. Fired-up Colorado led all the way into the final quarter before Oklahoma managed to salvage a 4 5-game unbeaten string, 14-13. Fist fights flared, and smooth football seemed a forgotten art until Notre Dame completed a soaring 74-yd. touchdown pass to trip Pitt, 13-7. Ohio State's Rose Bowl express just managed to stay on schedule when the Buckeyes booted a third-period field goal to stop Wisconsin...
...crooners, multimillionaire golfer, horseman, father of four sons (24 to 19); and curvaceous Cinemactress Kathy Grant (real name: Olive Kathryn Grandstaff), 23, who first met him during a 1953 interview as a part-time columnist ("A Texas Gal in Hollywood") for Texas Oilman Glenn McCarthy's string of newspapers; he for the second time (his first wife, Musicomedienne Dixie Lee, died in 1952), she for the first; in Las Vegas...