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What Columnist Crosby did not report is the way WOR's two unabashed staff composers, Elliot Jacoby and Richard duPage, turn out their bridge music and titles. Explains Composer Jacoby: "Ye Old English Countryside but Something Is Amiss breaks down into an opening of nostalgic muted strings; then the French horn dirties it up at the end." "Hate," says he, "is almost always bitter brass and off-key woodwinds." Love is usually-a muted string solo, but, "if very throbbing," the sweetly sighing string section is divided, "like Kostelanetz...
...Cass, was also left off this tentative squad. Tailback Bill Healley, out of action with a leg injury, and end Bob Di Blasio, recovering from an appendectomy, have been included on the varsity roster. In Wednesday's workout, Blitz replaced Ossman, who was somewhat bruised, on the second string...
Beveridge pointed out that these were only his own views, and that he hadn't yet talked with other YP members. But, he predicted, "Most of them won't string with Wallace, I don't think there will be any trouble in the club ranks...
Several new mechanical devices have become a part of the Crimson practice routine. One--an offensive dummy machine--consists of a string of five dummies fastened by airplane cable to a red at the top and to hooks driven into the ground at the bottom. Jordan used the machine at Amherst, but with chain instead of cable, which has sufficient spring to throw a would-be blocker...
...Weber is the only member of the squad to be hit by the latest service requirements. First string left guard on the freshman team last year, Weber was called to active duty by his National Guard unit. As Jordan pointed out on the first day of fall practice, the service will level all college teams--all except the Army...