Word: sprite
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Competing in the gymkhana, Peter L. V. Hutchinson '63, driving an Austin-Healey Sprite, took first in the small sports class, with HMSC President Peter G. Sachs '61 following for a close second in his Porsche 1600. Hutchinson and Sachs turned in the meet's fastest times. William E. Weir '61 placed second in the small touring class with his Volkswagen, guaranteeing the Club its victory...
Peter L. V. Hutchinson '63, driving an Austin-Healey Sprite, managed a very close win over a Fiat Abarth 750 by the slim margin of eight hundredths of a second. Safely winning the next class by a solid four seconds was HMSC President Peter G. Sachs '61, in his Porsche Coupe. J. Grey Jones '61 took third in the same event with...
...recording her interpretation of the old masters. Her recording of the 48 labyrinthine preludes and fugues of Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier is a modern classic. Landowska called it "my last will and testament." It was far from her last. At 76, but with the spirit of a sprite, the high priestess of the harpsichord turned once again to "my first love"-the piano, and to a second master-Mozart...
...partly Actress Hepburn's, too. The character she plays is a woman torn by powerful emotions, but, although a sensitive performer, the leading lady seems unable to express strong feelings of any kind. She is too cool; and so is the picture. She has the presence of the sprite, not the presence of the spirit. Calm and exquisite in her habit, she looks most of the time like nothing more troubled or troubling than (if such a thing were possible) a recruiting poster for a convent...
...that troubled Mimi was that Wolf would never put down his riding crop. Then one golden day they got out of the car and romped in the meadows like children. Leading Mimi to a tall pine, Hitler said: "Just stand there as you are. You're my forest sprite . . . Later you will understand." It was their first stormy kiss. "I was so happy I wished I could die," says Maria. On the way back to the car, Hitler told her that his ideal was to marry and have blond children, but that he must save Germany first. After that...