Word: walts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Frank Churchill, 40, hit tune composer (Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?; Heigh Ho; Whistle While You Work); by his own hand (shooting); near Newhall, Calif. He had been composing for Walt Disney for eleven years. A suicide note to his wife read: "My nerves have completely left me. Please forgive me for this awful act." Churchill's songs included one called Happy as a Lark, another called The Sunny Side of Things...
...what democracy is, what we are fighting for." So first he telephoned Jerome Kern in Beverly Hills. Kern, who has been a Mark Twain enthusiast since boyhood (the first book he ever owned was Huckleberry Finn), jumped at the idea of a Mark Twain portrait. Copland wanted to do Walt Whitman in music, but was persuaded to tackle Lincoln. Virgil Thomson was best suited to his particular assignments. Since 1928 he has been composing musical portraits, sketching out his music (as a painter would) while the subject poses...
...best thing in the show is an animal act called The Bricklayers. The delightful trained dogs who dump loads of bricks, clamber up & down ladders, act tight, sham dead, ride around on scooters and perform on the trapeze deserve the rare compliment that they might have been invented by Walt Disney...
Coach Don Peddie's golf team took the measure of a strong M. I. T. quartet 4 to 2. The best score of the day was turned in by Walt Wilcox, who shot a startling 74. The third victory of the year was won by the lacrosse team, which downed Lawrence Academy, 9 to 1. High scorer was Fred Geenhalge, who was responsible for nearly half the team's total...
Dunster: Bill Lucas, stroke; Walt Rogers, 7; Bill Schal, 6; Frank Hammond, 5; Fred Cunningham, 4; Al Schmidt, 3; Tom Winship, 2; Finn Ferner, 1; Cliff Taylor...