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...being engulfed by bluegrass," lamented one of the judges at Union Grove last week. But if the fiddlers' convention can do nothing about the dilution of folk traditions, it can at least draw the line somewhere. Brass instruments and drums are forbidden, and Convention Organizer J. P. Van Hoy says: "Some people a few years ago tried to play rock 'n' roll. We throwed them out on their ears...
...convention was started by Van Hoy's father, H. P. Van Hoy, as a means of raising funds for the school Over the years, half of the gate receipts, which now total $60,000, has gone to the school, while the other half has been divided among the competing bands to pay their travel expenses...
...fact that the convention has become a famous oasis for folk buffs, talent scouts, and people who just like to hear some fancy bowin' and pickin'. In fact, Union Grovers are beginning to believe that a special providence watches over the event. Founder H. P. Van Hoy, now 81, recalls that it rained on the opening session 44 years ago, but "there hasn't been a drop of rain on any convention since. If that doesn't mean the Lord is with us, well, I don't know what...
Their best guard, Jerry West, is accident prone. Their best forward, Elgin Baylor, is a 33-year-old with two bad knees. Their coach, Bill van Breda Kolff, is a first-year man who learned his trade in the Ivy League. Yet, after losing 22 of their first 44 games this year, they have won 38 out of 47. Two weeks ago, they swept four in a row from the San Francisco Warriors to capture the National Basketball Association's Western Division playoffs. And this week they will be trying to turn a minor miracle into a major...
Unlike the Celtics, who rely strongly on the rebounding of Bill Russell and a patterned offense, Los Angeles is a run-and-shoot ball club whose offensive strategy consists simply of feeding the hot hand" of the moment. "Organized confusion,'' is the way Coach van Breda Kolft characterizes the Lakers' style of play. Van Breda Kolff contributes considerably to that himself. A sometime N.B.A. guard (with the New York Knickerbockers) and coach at Princeton during the Bill Bradley era, he is a study in perpetual motion during Lakers' games-stalking the sideline screaming at officials, drop...