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...members tend to take life less seriously than those in other houses and, although anxious to thrust ahead, do not like to express this anxiety too openly. They form a congenial, closely knit group and participate faithfully in house activities--this year Eliot is a leading contender for the Strauss trophy that goes to the over-all leader in the Interhouse athletic leagues. Although the average academic performance of its members is lower than in some other houses, Eliot men have won 19 Rhodes Scholarships since the Second World War and last year won two Henrys, two Knoxes, a Shaw...
...lilting strains of Johann Strauss's Graduation Ball wafted through Cortina, Italy, as a sturdy blonde girl glided around the open-air rink. The music leaped, and the girl leaped too-a twisting "double axel" that sent her hurtling through the air until she glided back on the ice. The music played on, and each time it soared, she soared-through intricate "flying camels," "double toe-loops" and "flying sit-spins." The performance ended. The Netherlands' Sjoukje Dijkstra, 21, smiled sweetly, acknowledging the bravos. She smiled again, less demurely, when the judges announced her score...
Bartok composed the Scherzo when he was 24, entranced by the windy sonorities of Richard Strauss, and he filled the work with rolling Straussian orchestrated sounds. But the scheduled 1905 premiere never took place. At the last moment, Bartok withdrew the Scherzo, because Hans Richter (who was to have led the Budapest Symphony Orchestra, with Bartok at the piano) had not had time to study and annotate the master score and there were many mistakes in copied parts. That same year, Bartok discovered folk music, and his infatuation with Strauss ended abruptly. There were no requests to revive his unplayed...
Inman will probably again replace Len Strauss in the starting line up. Vern Strand will go at center, Leo Scully and captain Gene Augustine at guards, and Dennis Lynch as the other forward...
Martin L. Kilson, Jr. and Charles J. Beard, Jr. '66 will deliver lectures on the relation between Negro history and American history in general at 7:30 p.m. tonight in the Strauss Hall Common Room...