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...first string lineup was sent in at the beginning of the second canto, however. Employing a fast breaking attack, they dropped in four quick baskets to send the tally up to 19 to 11. The Crimson never got back on its feet, and the half ended with the score standing at Coast Guard 28, Harvard...
...Kwajalein, world's largest atoll, an 80-mile string of islets, is the hub of the Marshall fortifications. It has a major airfield (on Roi Island), a seaplane anchorage, submarine facilities. In its tremendous lagoon, raiding U.S. planes (TIME, Dec. 20), have caught cruisers, carriers, seagoing merchantmen and many varieties of inter-island craft...
...what he did on Guadalcanal, Merritt Edson, one of the Corps's great small-arms experts, won the Congressional Medal of Honor and the British D.S.O. to add to a string of ribbons already long...
...large one. Its impressive history goes back to the 18th Century day when Hungary's Prince Esterházy hired Franz Joseph Haydn to write and play quartets and symphonies for him. Quartet playing has been one of the chief private pleasures of almost every accomplished string player who ever lived-and the public profession of scores of them. Many wealthy European amateurs have spent their space time playing second fiddle in a quartet with three professionals, supported for the purpose...
...history of modern string quartet playing might be said to have begun in 1902. That year, partially deaf Edward J. de Coppet, senior partner of the Manhattan brokerage house of De Coppet & Doremus, decided to subsidize a group of four players who would make quartet playing their exclusive and full-time occupation. De Coppet, a fanatical music lover, gathered his quartet to practice in peace on his Swiss estate which he called Villa Flonzaley, after a small brook that flowed through the grounds. When they came out of hiding as the Flonzaley Quartet, the musical world soon found their playing...