Word: stringings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After spending the week juggling his first-string lineup, Coach James MacDoanld is starting a slightly different team than that which opened against either Princeton, Tufts, or WPI, and he expects to use several of the "A" team men in other positions than those in which they start, according to the way the game with the Jeffmen proceeds...
...fist string forward line looked about the best it has all year, and before the afternoon was ever, it had slammed in a total of 12 goals against a mongrel "B" eleven with Phil Potter and Gaston Azcarraga doing most of the scoring...
Seven Blocks of Granite. Four years before Knute Rockne plane-crashed to death in Kansas, Irishman Frank Leahy came to Notre Dame. He already had determination. He became first-string tackle simply because he practiced blocking, tackling and charging (against dummies) hours after the rest of the team took their showers...
...Good string quartets are about as rare in the U.S. as quadruplets. Last week in Berkeley, Calif, a new one took the air. The Paganini Quartet (so named because their cello, viola, and two violins are Stradivarii once owned by the great violinist, Niccolo Paganini) played Beethoven and Debussy at a brisker than usual clip, but the music was warm and dramatic. Wrote the San Francisco Chronicle's critic, Alfred Frankenstein: "Perhaps never before has one heard a string quartet with so rich, mellow and superbly polished a tone...
Like most string quartets, the Paganini has a liberal patron. She is Mrs. William Andrews Clark, widow of the copper-millionaire Senator from Montana. First she engaged Scottish-born Violinist Henri Temianka and Belgian Cellist Robert Maas, then she sent to Brussels for Violist Robert Courte and Violinist Gustave Rosseels. She bought the four Stradivarii, which are insured for $250,000, from a New York dealer. Patroness Clark's quartet has already signed for a Beethoven series at the Library of Congress, and for the opening November concert in Manhattan...