Word: wabash
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hoosier Athens" is Crawfordsville, Ind. (pop. 10,000), home of the late great Best-Seller General Lew Wallace (Ben Hur). Crawfords ville's biggest office building-five stories-is owned by Ben Hur Life Association. The town's prettiest buildings are on the campus of Wabash College. Two or three times a year, one of these buildings, a prim chapel seating 1,100 people, becomes Crawfordsville's concert hall. There last fortnight, Crawfordsville culture glowed at its brightest. In the chapel 650 townsfolk heard the season's second and final concert of the Crawfordsville Symphony Orchestra...
...Gronert), musical-minded Lawyer Lowell S. Love, who became the first conductor, and Professor Henry C. Montgomery, who (self-taught) played the French horn, became the orchestra's librarian and guiding angel. With a full concert strength of 55 to 60 musicians, the orchestra now includes music teachers, Wabash students, musically knowledgeable farmers and townsfolk. Ages run from 15 to 61. Some instruments, like the English horn and bass clarinet, are missing. So for its concerts the Symphony augments its ranks by hiring from four to eight professionals from the Indianapolis Symphony...
...Crawfordsville Symphony played originally from borrowed scores, now has a library with a good standard repertory, proudly negotiates a complete symphony at every concert. Wabash College has a Capehart phonograph and a collection of records-gifts of the Carnegie Corporation-which enable the orchestra to hear how the world's big orchestras perform the works in its library. At weekly rehearsals the Crawfordsville musicians often play out of tune, get lost, wheeze and whiffle, come in at the wrong places, and competing basketball games lure away many a player. But as concert nights approach, attendance and teamwork improve...
Barbara Stanwyck is a beautiful woman, when she can keep her hair from falling down in front of her face. Fred MacMurray isn't a bad sort of a guy, especially when he is playing, as in "Remember the Night," a local boy from the Wabash country of Indiana who has made good in the big city as an assistant district attorney. The two of them together have been able to do a lot for this over-sweet litle romance; some who have seen it say it made them remember all the girls they had ever been in love with...
...anthropology, no more than chess. In neolithic days Chicago became the dummy of the Big Ten. For three years it has failed to win a football game from any of its Conference opponents. This year the once mighty Maroons won two of eight games (against minor-league Oberlin and Wabash), had 308 points scored against them...