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...those sports which he enjoys playing. To the collegiate rank and file, it offers stimulus to widespread athletic participation, to pleasurable exercise directed toward the development of sound bodies for sane minds. To rapidly spreading spectator sports and grandstand gymnastics, hailed by our fashionable pessimists as the sign of twilight in a decadent generation, it deals an effective body blow...
...this new field of composition is Raymond Scott, a Brooklyn-born musician, whose brother Mark Warnow has long rated as one of the Big Ten of U. S. danceband leaders. Composer Scott, whose real name is Harry Warnow (originally Warnofsky) is the creator of a dozen-odd recordings (Twilight in Turkey, Powerhouse, War Dance for Wooden Indians, etc.). His music, whose deliberate jazz style is so sophisticated that it seems almost a caricature of jazz, has attracted the attention of such musical bigwigs as Igor Stravinsky. Last week Bandleader Paul Whiteman devoted the best part of his CBS broadcast...
...ball club. They include many a onetime major-leaguer on his way out, many a schoolboy on his way up. But the backbone of the semi-pros are barbers, butchers, lumberjacks, bootblacks and other workmen who play baseball three times a week (two twilight games and one on Sunday) for a little extra revenue (usually $2 to $5 a game). They are content to job along as sandlotters, but the goal of the up & coming schoolboy is to be seen by big-league scouts-who picked up 156 semi-pros last year...
...investigated a half-dozen birthplaces, made a pilgrimage up St. Patrick's mountain in Connemara, flew over Ulster in a plane piloted by his good friend, the Marquess of Londonderry, leafed through all the ancient and modern biographies. But his principal guide into the 5th Century Celtic twilight was surviving local legend...
...storm let up for a moment, saw no one, returned to the valley. The following morning, as spectators ran to the telescopes for a morbid view of frozen corpses, the quartet calmly walked into Kleine Scheidegg. They had conquered the Eigerwand during the blinding snowstorm, reached their goal at twilight the evening before...