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Second prize went to Nicholas Van Slyck '44, for his original piano concerto in E flat minor. A "String Ensemble" composed of a hot sax, a pace setting piano, and a guitar took third place...
Less pretentious but in its own way just as enjoyable is the Beethoven String Guartet Opus 18 No. 6, one of the most spontaneous and delightfully humorous of the early quartets, to which the recording by the Coolidge Quartet (Album M-745) does full justice. . . . Also of a genial and unpretentious nature is the Corelli Concerto Grosso No. 11 in B-Flat, in dance suite form, recorded on a single Victor record (No. 12587) by Arthur Fiedler and his Sinfonietta. The finding of this concerto by the scholarly efforts of Mr. Fiedler is typical of the great practical service...
Heudi Ledbetter, ace negro blues singerr, known to many as "Leadbelly," the only twelve-string guitar player in America and one-time convict, stole the show when he sang last night at a benefit performance for Spanish relief in the Cantabrigia Club. A packed room clamoured incessantly for more of his husky voiced "hot ones...
...That year the meet was held in Minneapolis, and there was walling and gnashing of teeth when Harvard failed to make the trek west because the H.A.A. could not gather together the necessary shekels. That was the year that Charlie Hutter and Pop Cummins first snapped Yale's unbelievable string of 163 victories...
Neither Burgy Ayres, first string center, who is out for baseball, nor Dick Pfister, regular guard, who is putting the shot on Jaakko Mikkola's track team, will play much football this spring, but Vern Miller who alternated with Pete Elser at tackle last year has recovered sufficiently from an ankle injury suffered during the wrestling season to be ready for heavy work...