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Professor John H. Finley's complacent gentlemen from Eliot House ambled to first place in the spring intramural competitions to capture the Strauss Trophy, emblematic of House athletic supremacy, for the second straight year...
Stroke, Schollo; 7, Dick; 6, Wulsin; 5, Ross; 4, Smith; 3, Stanford; 2, Gardiner; Bow, Strauss; Cox, Twilley...
Jourdan's acting is even less convincing than his peculiar role, that of a forgetful, confused, rich and good-looking Viennese composer. He lives in an apartment that would have made Johann Strauss' mouth water. The background of Vienna looks convincing, the supporting cast does fairly well, and if the plot, taken from a novel by Stefan Zweig but curiously reminiscent of "The Constant Nymph," were not so contrived, "Letter From An Unknown Woman" would come close to being a grade "B" picture...
...scorns the 19th Century and its romantics-Berlioz, Schumann, Wagner-and latter-day romantics like Richard Strauss. He once insisted, in a heated moment, that "Music is powerless to express anything whatsoever." As for writing like a romantic, he says: "I cannot appeal to you as a person with my music; it would embarrass...
...nominate the rest of the AEC team for staggered terms: Sumner Pike, four years; Lewis Strauss, three; William Waymack, two; Robert Bacher...