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Having met at the Olympic games in Australia and married despite mountains of red tape in Red-ruled Czechoslovakia, Champion Hammer Thrower Harold Connolly, 25, the pride of Boston, and his bride, Champion Discus Thrower Olga Filcotova, 24, the pride of Prague, sailed happily into New York harbor, down to "our last 35?." Exclaiming on the beauties of Fifth Avenue's shop windows, Olga was quickly reassured by her mother-in-law: "This is nothing. Wait until you see Boston, the seat of all culture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, may 6, 1957 | 5/6/1957 | See Source »

...company's main attraction is Landowski's own one-acter. The Ventriloquist, which tells the story of a voice-thrower whose soul is tormented by two dummies representing love and hate. The tape-recorded orchestra accompanies the singers in fantasy scenes while a piano takes over during the here-and-now sequences. (Another of the company's productions, Gian Carlo Menotti's The Telephone, is accompanied entirely by piano.) The tape machine makes for some difficulties; e.g., singers sometimes have a hard time synchronizing their voices with the tape, and occasionally there are rests not written...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Pocket Opera | 4/22/1957 | See Source »

...annual running of the Bird Handicap Mile yesterday, Jay Hundley, discus thrower on the freshman track team, outlasted another Yardling, Phil Robertson, to take first place. Hundley, running with the maximum 440-yard handicap, became the first freshman to win the mile in its five-year history

Author: By William C. Sigal, | Title: Strong Track Team To Oppose Dartmouth In Outdoors Opener | 4/20/1957 | See Source »

Take the Army meet, for instance. On paper, the Cadets loomed as the strongest team in the Heptagonal league. Senior weight thrower Pete Harpel set the tenor of the meet in the first event. He threw the 35-pound ball 55 feet, 6 inches, six feet farther than his best last season, to pick up the first place for the varsity...

Author: By William C. Sigal, | Title: THE SPORTING SCENE | 3/26/1957 | See Source »

...Hammer Thrower Harold Connolly, 25, a high-school history teacher from Boston, made no concessions to his gimpy left arm (four inches shorter than the right), tossed the 16-lb. hammer to a new Olympic mark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Faster, Higher, Farther | 12/3/1956 | See Source »

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