Word: townes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...your labors be fruitful." That was in Madrid in 1912, when the guitarist was young. Since then he has wandered the globe, playing with unparalleled passion and beauty. Last week, a vigorous 65, Andrés Segovia was celebrating his 50th season of concertizing. In Manhattan's Town Hall he demonstrated again the magic that he brings to the guitar, an instrument that, before Segovia's coming, was thought to be fit mostly for gypsies. "Segovia's guitar does not sound loud," Stravinsky once said, "but it sounds...
Ferras was born in the seaside town of Le Touquet, the son of a hotel owner who had started to be a violinist but abandoned his career when he cut his left hand on a wine bottle, severing the nerve to his little finger. Father Ferras trained his son until he was 15. Christian won a first prize at the Paris Conservatory, soon afterward made his concert debut in Paris. He has been touring steadily since (England, North Africa, South America...
...contradiction to the unfortunate statement quoted in the March 16 CRIMSON, we wish to say that in our opinion much of the credit for the success of "Wonderful Town" is due to the many Harvard men who were involved in the production. Were it not for their help the show might well have been but another Drumbeats disaster. We would, therefore, like to apologize for any misunderstanding that may have resulted from this remark, and here thank the better half of the show. Vivian Thomas Kyra Gordon Jane Hallowell Louise N. Bell Carola Kittredge Harriet S. Popham Susan Colt Doolittle...
...HAVEN, March 16--In a dramatic move designed to soothe town-gown bitterness caused by the St. Patrick's parade riot here Saturday, Yale University Deans today imposed "general probation" on the entire undergraduate body...
...discovery, in Devil by the Sea, that little girls who walk along the shore can expect to find more than sand castles. The friendly knee that innocent Hilary encounters is the shank of an old derelict whom she meets at the amusement park in her seaside home town of Henstable. Later that afternoon Hilary sees the old man lead another little girl across the marshes. Watching his "clumsy horror, the surgical boot, the clubfoot," she decides that he is the Devil. When she reads in the paper that the little girl has been murdered, Hilary is sure "the Devil...