Word: stringings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...underside of western Africa's Atlantic bulge, the British might have a shipping and supply contact either with the home isles or, in dreaded necessity, with a refugee government in Canada. From Nigeria the girdle could reach east to Kenya, along any of several possible roads, absorb a string of World War II airbases, make a junction with the north-south Cape Town trunk road...
...placed the blame largely on the wing halfbacks who failed to cover the Indian outside forwards and the failure by the Crimson attack to make full use of its wings on offense. To try to overcome these weaknesses Mac has reorganized the forward line promoting Roger Lazarus to first-string inside right, and raising Hugh Morse to first-string inside left. Phil Potter will stay at center forward with Arnold Corrigan on the outside left. With Jocko Smith still out with an injured leg, Curtis Cate will open at outside right...
...Petkoff, seems the only character capable of conjuring up any comedy. The others, in their assorted attempts to build emotional rhapsodies, burlesque the Shavian wit rather than convey it. Settings, neatly done by Matt Horner, demonstrate his expertness and the effects achievable by an outfit operating on a shoe-string basis...
Amidst all the talk about blues singers, jazz artists, and Koussevitzky lovers, the concert to be given November 10 by the Budapest String Quartet has been almost ignored. This is a great pity, for no instrumental organization in this country quite compares with the Budapest in consistent quality of execution...
...program is about as good as can be expected, with the first Boston performance of Prokofieff's new string quartet as the featured piece. An early Beethoven, the opus 18, No. 3, will open the afternoon, and a somewhat grim note will be struck by the Brahms A Minor quartet at the conclusion...