Word: ross
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Diminutive Presence. Now 41, Capote has executed an "esthetic experiment." He calls it a "new literary form" -a "nonfiction novel." It is an unfortunate term, as contradictory as it is pretentious. Cornelius Ryan's The Longest Day, a reconstruction in novel form of the Allied Normandy landings, Lillian Ross's Picture, a book-length study of the making of the film Red Badge of Courage, and John Hersey's Hiroshima are numbered among the creditable jobs of journalism that antedate Capote's esthetic experiment. Not to forget that old master, Ernest Hemingway...
Chris Pardee, who has not been tested in the high jump thus far this winter, will be in the spotlight against Southern University's Richard Ross and Maryland's Frank Costello. Both have cleared...
Defense is the Boston stronghold, even with the loss of their star Tom Ross, who broke his jaw in a game over the holidays. Brian Gilmore and Pete McLaughlin will try to keep Ross's injury from being a big factor. These two defensemen have helped B.U. to the astounding record of 76 goals scored and only 28 goals allowed...
SING A SONG OF BASIE (Impulse!) A reissue of the 1957 recording that first spotlighted Dave Lambert, Jon Hendricks and Annie Ross. By singing over their own voices on tape (a process that took 60 hours of recording time), the three remarkably flexible jazz singers create an exciting vocal equivalent of Basic's big band (accompanied by a real Basie rhythm section). Together, the trio sounds the brasses or the reeds, then Annie Ross sings a bright trumpet solo (in Blues Backstage) or with Hendricks a mellow saxophone duet (Two for the Blues...
...need for complicated electronic parts has given a new boost to the electronics industry. Advance Ross Electronics of Chicago, which makes the deflection yokes and transformers for most manufacturers, has increased its sales in two years from $5.8 to $12 million. MSL Industries of Chicago, which produces both tube fasteners and plastic injection-molded cabinets (with which it hopes to fight wood's new inroads), is spending $8,000,000 to double its capacity, will hire 300 new workers. Corning Glass, the supplier of 90% of all the basic glass "bulbs" for color tubes, recently opened a third plant...