Word: thomson
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Yale's other firsts were taken by Stew Thomson in the discus and shot put; Tom Henderson in the hammer throw; and a three-way tie for first in the pole vault among Bill Donegan, Hal Work, and Nat Durfee...
Yale's strength lies in the field events, and, to be exact, in any event Thomson, Henderson, or Donegan compete. The first two are huge weight men, and the last, a pole vaulter. Last Saturday against Princeton, Thomson took the shot put and the discus; Henderson took the hammer; and Donegan tied for first in the pole vault. In addition Thomson finished second in the hammer; Henderson second in the shot...
Earlier this year, the Braves looked like the real team to beat, but since then the trade of Antonelli and Liddle to the Giants for Thomson severely weakened the pitching staff, and Thomson's broken ankle is a bad break all the way around. The Milwaukee team is still tough, but it's beginning to look as though the Giants are going to beat them out for second place...
...teachers, received the most appropriate of birthday presents: songs by four of his most eminent pupils in honor of his seventieth birthday. Virgil Thomson's Kyrie Eleison, with a rhythmically free main line that seemed to float between sopranos and basses, had some startling harmonies and enough consistency to make it the most memorable of the four. Some rather academic music by Allen Sapp and Randall Thompson, and Henry Leland Clarke's complicated, episodic treatment of Happy Is the Man (Proverb 3:13) at least proved how very diverse Davison's influence has been...
Music in Davison's honor, composed especially for the occasion by Henry L. Clark, Virgil Thomson '22, Randall Thompson '20, Walter Bigelow Rosen Professor of Music, and Allen D. Sapp, assistant professor of Music, will comprise the latter part...