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Once a promising Dodger farmhand, U.S.C. Alumnus Bill Sharman used to nurse fond dreams of big-league baseball. ("I'm the guy who was going to shove Snider out of center field," he remembers with a wry smile.) Now he knows that basketball is his game. He is so central to the Celtics' championship hopes that last week Coach Red Auerbach refused to tempt trouble by putting him back in uniform too soon for the four and five pounding miles of running required in a pro game. So Bill bided his time until the St. Louis Hawks invaded...
...twice, there is absolutely nothing worth reading in it. Despite diligent seeking over the years, one cannot find a more fruitful way to waste time than spending an afternoon with Robb Sagendorph '22 ("Upon this occasion of the 80th Anniversary of the Lampoon, we must not forget in our fond reminiscing aobut the past, that the present and future are with us, too.") or Edward A. Bacon '20 ("What'll I do, what'll I do,/Now that Gretchen and I are through?") of Lewis P. Mansfield '16 ("We offer eighty years of skill/In putting Joy on Humor's sword...
...that Mrs. Luce is about to leave us, we shall miss the grace, sweetness and firmness with which she fitted into the Italian scene . . . She is a lady of whom many Italians have become very fond . . . Everyone will be sorry to see her go, especially those irreconcilable supporters of the stronger sex who were not pleased with the idea of seeing an ambassador in skirts in our capital city. Mrs. Luce has shown herself to have the stature of her post. Only a few people, and even fewer diplomats, have understood the reality and the spirit of the Italian woman...
...tube with the fervor of a doctor hunting a symptom. "Wow," he will say in wonderment. "Look at that plumbing!" Then he places mouthpiece to lip and, if the instrument is not too leaky, ripples out a modernist roulade. One of Composer Brant's finest works is a fond flute dream called Angels and Devils, a concerto for flute and flute orchestra. Now it is on records, soloed by Frederick Wilkins, conducted by the composer and released by Composers Recordings, Inc. It is a remarkable experience, for Henry Brant knows every sonority that has ever been tried and quite...
...year-old Arturo Toscanini; in the crash of an Italian airliner shortly after its take-off from Paris. At 25, Cantelli was the youngest conductor ever to lead Milan's famed La Scala orchestra, of which he was appointed permanent conductor a fortnight ago. Toscanini's fond verdict: "He conducts like...