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...slimmest of margins. Schrader of Lehigh was a very strong wrestler, and neither he nor Daughaday could meet with a common form of wrestling. Daughaday's standups and drags, particularly the former, were clicking, but he was outmatched in the overtime by Schrader's persistent, under arm spin...
When a distinctly nationalistic school began to develop in Spin, the stimulus came at first from outside. In their search for folk-songs and new and exotic types of musical material the musicians of the late nineteenth century, especially the colorists of Russia and France, exploited the brilliant melodies and rhythms of Spanish popular song. The number of French and Russian compositions at the end of the last century with titles like Spanish Caprice, Spanish Symphony, Espana, and Iberia demonstrates how potent an influence the Spanish idiom had become...
...opera fans the first public appearance of a new soprano or tenor is as exciting as the trial spin of a new Class-J sloop is to yachtsmen. Last week Manhattan's debutasters trooped to the Metropolitan Opera House to size up the beam, rig and probable speed of two of the Metropolitan's brand-new singers. Chicago operagoers had already bravoed both of them long ago. But that was not enough for Manhattan. For every standee at the Metropolitan regards himself as a member of opera's supreme court, delights to reverse or qualify the opinions...
...same class with Lee, comes the other starting Sophomore back, Charley Spreyer. Unlike Lee in temperament, Spreyer seems easy-going on the field; but somehow he's always there. He's the Larry Kelley type of "clutch" player, without Kelley's objectionable trimmings. At fullback he won't spin and run like Vern Struck, but he'll kick like George Roberts...
...Laboratories in Dearborn, Mich, was a snug two-seater slated for mass production at about $3,000. (Specifications: four cylinder, 75-h.p. motor, 450-mile cruising range, tricycle landing gear, controls so limited that the pilot will not be able to pull the ship high enough for a tail spin). By next spring, Inventor Stout announced, his new planes will be rolling off the assembly line at the rate...