Word: stringings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There are plenty of towels of all shapes and sizes at Soldiers Field these days, but you won't find any of they crying variety. That's why Coach Valpey refuses to discuss the seven Sophomores who played first string Freshman ball last fall and have now dropped out of the picture...
Balancing this wholesale loss is the presence of several capable athletes who weren't around last fall. Tall Tom Guthrie, a 230-pound transfer student from Notre Dame (he played first-string end) has been moved to tackle. Guard Jack Coan started five games for Harvard's informal Varsity back in 1945, and now shapes up as one of the starting guards...
Berg: Lyric Suite (Galimir String Quartet; Vox-Polydor, 8 sides). In this suite, one of his last works, the late Alban Berg (TIME, May 31) put his teacher Arnold Schonberg's theories to test, came up with perhaps the best work yet composed in twelve-tone technique. That still doesn't make it very listenable to ordinary unpracticedears. Performance: excellent. Recording : excellent...
...shipping department of Peter Keevil & Sons, Ltd., London wholesale provisioners, a worker named Jack Bryant found his cigarette lighter empty. Cleverly, he lowered a small medicine bottle on a string into the fuel tank of a company truck, pulled it out full of red gasoline, and replenished his lighter. (Britain's Labor government has decreed the red color for all gas used by commercial vehicles, for easier detection if it leaks into the black market...
Medicine v. Mozart. U.S. music fans have heard Boyd Neel's orchestra only on records, if at all. Last year his 21-piece string group crossed the U.S. en route to Australia, but they flew across the U.S. in silence on a world tour, with their instruments in bond...