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There are four parts to Adams House; three of them are attractive, comfortable--relics of an era when the function of a building was still good living. Two of the three are Westmorly Court and Randolph Hall, the former quietly Tudor, the latter faintly Gothic, both of them built around the turn of the century to provide elegant Gold Coast young gentlemen with elegant young apartments (F. D. Roosevelt '04 lived appropriately in Westmorly South, now B-entry). The third part is Apthorp House, Master Reuben A. Brower's official home, where he entertains and serves tea to students, guests...
...America defenseman Dave Johnston received the Tudor Memorial Award as the Crimson's most valuable player and Jorgenson won the Angier Trophy as the varsity's most improved performer over the past season. Jorgenson centered the line of Kinasewich and Bill Fryer--the JFK unit instrumental in the Crimson's final nine-game winning streak...
...Tudor office building in Buenos Aires, a clattering telex last week typed out more than 1,000 messages a day from the four corners of the world. There was news of jute prices in Calcutta, of harvest prospects in Illinois, and of grain shipments from Australia. All these reports had the same addressee: Bunge & Born Ltd., a firm so powerful that Argentines call it "El Pulpo"-the Octopus...
...Rose Revealed. Cardinal Wolsey loved bright color. Under the layers of dirt, the restorers gradually revealed the brilliant Tudor blue ("byse") and gold work of the ceiling Wolsey ordered. It displayed the Tudor rose and the white plumes of the Prince of Wales, and it consists of 129 panels made up of a kind of papier-mâché. For the few panels that had been destroyed, the restorers finally came close to duplicating the material. One of its ingredients was goats' hair...
...oldfashioned theory courses, he instituted a widely discussed curriculum called "Literature and Materials of Music," which used the music of the past as text and was largely taught by composers. The Juilliard that Mennin inherits has a flourishing dance department that numbers in its faculty Martha Graham. Antony Tudor, Jose Limon, and a topnotch quartet-in-residence, headed by Violinist Robert Mann. Juilliard stresses contemporary music, believing that "musicians of a given epoch have the responsibility for the music of their time." It emphasizes student performances, which frequently are attended by artists' managers and talent scouts for major orchestras...