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Captain Putnam and Lakin at center and right wing respectively, and Garrison and Batchelder at defense are the four stars of last year who are opening tonight. Wood, the only Sophomore in the starting lineup is Coach Stubbs' choice for left wing. Ellis won out over four other competitors at goal and will start in the cage tonight...
Kappa Sigma last night won the championship of the Beta indoor baseball league by defeating the Phike Club, 30 to 2. Tonight the winner will play Alpha Chi Sigma of the Alpha league to determine the intramural indoor baseball championship...
...Vonckx '31 yesterday afternoon won the 35 pound weight in the tall University Handicap Meet. As in previous years, all the other events of this meet were held at the end of October while this was postponed for about a month. G. F. Bennett '33 took second place, while Murdock Finlayson '32 came in third...
Alexandre Constantinovitch Glazounov is the last survivor of the late great Russian school of composition. Born in St. Petersburg 64 years ago, the son of a bookseller, he was taught music by Mily Balakirev and Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov, both members of the famed Russian "Five."* He himself won early notice with his startling memory. When Alexander Borodin died, the overture to Prince Igor was nowhere to be found, but Glazounov had once heard Borodin play it on the piano and was able to reconstruct it entirely from memory. Aged 16, Glazounov had finished his own first symphony. Liszt liked...
...with prominent nose and upper teeth. Born in Washington, D. C. in 1889, he grew up to be a semiprofessional baseballer in St. Paul, Minn. Then he found his baritone voice was better than his throwing arm. He was a church soloist in Bronxville, N. Y. where he romantically won his wife with the aid of an elopers' ladder. Called one day for jury duty in Manhattan, he found himself near No. 195 Broadway, then headquarters of WEAF. He walked in, took a voice test, got a job. Fame came quickly. His reporting of the long-drawn 1924, Democratic...