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...high, delicate, exacting art of chamber music has no finer practitioners today than the Budapest String Quartet. Last week, deep in one of their busiest seasons, the Quartet was in Manhattan, giving the kind of performances that excite the perfectionist audience of the New Friends of Music. Within a few weeks they would be on the road again, following a schedule that calls for more than 90 concerts this year, 24 of them in the Library of Congress, four for the New Friends, twelve at a summer engagement at California's Mills College, and the rest in U.S. towns...
Handicapped by the fact that four of the five first-string practice men could not start. Harvard started out like a house a smoldering to jump off to a three-point lead after three minutes of sloppy scoreless play. The lead lasted about 45 seconds, and from that point on the Crimson was never in the game...
...also plays at least 15 musical and questionable instruments, to wit: banjo, fiddle, guitar, French harp, tenor guitar, ukulele, trumpet, accordion, piano, twelve-string guitars, Jew's-harp, dulcimer, five-string banjo, hand saw, rubber gloves, "and a tune I makes by just slopping against my cheeks with my hands." Tobalcker & Opry. How she acquired these abilities is something of a mystery, even to Cousin Emmy. She was born, next youngest of eight children, 12 miles from the nearest railroad at Lamb, Ky.-the family lived in a two-room log cabin which "had cracks between the walls...
...Crimson will also be handicapped by the absence of Henry Hibbard, last year's starting guard for B. U., who is scholastically ineligible. George Boston, first string center, but a V-12 Freshman, and Dan Shields, one of two returning veterans, who broke his ankle the second practice of the year...
...starters, Dean Hennessey is a Varsity veteran and captain of the team, Dick Warren played first string Junior Varsity last year, as did Ray Eder, Dick Manville is a new Freshman, and Bob Rayle has played House ball. Other men who will probably see a lot of action are Don Geeson at center and Jack Falsey at one of the forwards...