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Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 21, 1942 | 9/21/1942 | See Source »

...Best newcomers: Judith Evelyn, as the harassed, hysterical wife in Angel Street, Avon Long as the brilliantly capering Sportin' Life in Porgy and Bess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Broadway Blackout | 6/22/1942 | See Source »

Playing the title roles they made famous in 1935, Todd Duncan and Anne Brown acted capably, sang delightfully. Best new comer: Avon Long, who, as the dope peddler Sportin' Life, darted and capered with salamander-like skill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Old Musical in Manhattan, Feb. 2, 1942 | 2/2/1942 | See Source »

...Avon, Conn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 15, 1941 | 12/15/1941 | See Source »

Fired with enthusiasm, Professor Troxell started looking for resonant rocks, found an ideal deposit of them in a 200-million-year-old lava bed atop Avon Mountain near his home in Hertford. Toting a load of particularly clangorous cobbles home with him, Professor Troxell set them in a row, chipped them into tune with the aid of a chisel and a 10? pitch pipe. When he was through, he had a complete C Major scale three octaves long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Petrophonist Troxell | 8/25/1941 | See Source »

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