Word: stringing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pianist Cliburn's great talent is nothing new to knowing U.S. musicians and critics; for all the fanfare, the Russians did not "discover" him. In 1954 he won the Leventritt Award for young pianists and string players-a far tougher prize than the Tchaikovsky Gold Medal. Although the Leventritt competition is held annually, no prize had been awarded for five years because no entrant was judged up to it. Playing to some of the keenest musical ears in the world, Van took the prize hands down. After that, he was known as a comer in musical circles from...
...paper, the varsity must be rated a strong favorite in tomorrow's game. Figured to have only a mediocre year in pre-season predictions, the Crimson has won an amazing string of six straight league victories without a defeat, culminating in Wednesday's 5-4 trimming of second-place Dartmouth. The Elis, now in fourth place, have won four and lost three in the league...
HANOVER, N.H., May 14--The Crimson baseball team, whose string of one-run victories has left its followers in varying states of nervous collapse all season, ventured tantalizingly close to the brink of defeat this afternoon, but held on to beat a highly-rated Dartmouth squad...
...member of one of the big families of the county had his throat slit from ear to ear by his wife, an outsider," says Rhyne. "The feeling in the community against the girl was extremely adverse. The attorney who defended her was an old string-tie lawyer named C. W. Tillett. I begged my father into letting me go to the trial one day. Tillett engaged in flamboyant arguments, told the jury how it was self-defense, and the girl was freed. The fact that this girl got justice in a place where people didn't like her made...
Best Since Berg. Composer Imbrie grew up in Princeton, N.J., started playing the piano when he was four. As a Princeton University undergraduate, he studied composition with Roger Sessions, won the New York Music Critics' Circle Award in 1944 for his String Quartet in B Flat. He followed Sessions in 1946 to Berkeley, where he got his M.A. With three years out for work in Rome on a Prix de Rome and later a Guggenheim fellowship, he has taught at the University of California ever since...