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...Michigan border. To the north, others moved erratically across the Michigan landscape. One hit Tawas (four dead), another Erie (four dead), another skirted Ann Arbor, 35 miles from Detroit. At Milford, Mich., the elementary-school band was practicing in the gymnasium when a twister sucked the roof off the gym, but hurt none of the youngsters...
Jackets to Jeans. The Crestubilee got under way at a big banquet in the high-school gym, beneath a giant, school-painted mural of Waikiki Beach. After dinner the basketball floor was cleared and a band, imported from Des Moines, struck up. At 11 p.m. everyone proceeded to the Uptown Theater for a "Hollywood First Night." Searchlights probed the sky and more than 1,000 Crestonians pressed against the ropes and ogled the kids as they went up the blue carpet past photographers and radio interviewers to see a Technicolored musical, The Girl Next Door...
Boxcars to Breakfast. At 4 a.m. the floor was cleared for more dancing-much more enthusiastic dancing than at the gym-and at 5 o'clock the party moved to the depot for a train "trip to the Orient" (Orient being a hamlet twelve miles away). The orchestra hit it up in a boxcar between two coaches, and the boys & girls who were too weary to dance either necked or threw confetti out the windows on the sleeping countryside. Two hours later, as the train clattered back into Creston, past the water tower, the band broke into Auld Lang...
...words" are masonry-like slabs of paint troweled on to canvas. His biggest picture weighs 250 lbs. unframed, and his smallest, something more than a gym-class dumbbell. Each colored slab fits its neighbors as snugly as a stone in a wall. A mound of squarish slabs represents a bouquet; rectangular slabs in horizontal layers stand for a seacoast. De Staël's colors are sumptuous, often set off by solid chunks of coal black which supercharge the canvas in much the same way as Rouault's heavy black outlines...
Again victorious this past season, he received his greatest disappointment in the Eastern Intercollegiate. Winning 5 to 1 over Lehigh's Jim McCord with 40 seconds to go, he was miraculously pinned before the 4000 fans in Princeton's Dillon Gym knew what happened. This Friday in his last college match, he will again meet McCord in the NCAA tourney at Penn State...