Word: thirdly
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Patterson is sleepy-eyed, smooth-muscled and filled with the melancholy of defeat. Over and over, he relives in his mind the third round of his fight in Yankee Stadium last June 26, when a series of Johansson right-hands made him the ex-champ. "I don't remember going out." says Patterson. "When I heard the referee say 'neutral corner,' I thought I'd knocked Ingemar out. Then I got up and started to talk and I had this pain in the back of my head and I'd have laid odds that...
...lead, Cornell's ex-jayvees coolly dropped the beat to 31, understrok-ing even Harvard. Rowing against an 18-m.p.h. wind. Cornell held on to the end of the 2,000-meter course, beating off a desperate finishing effort by Harvard. Of the favored crews. Navy was third and Pennsylvania was sixth and last...
...Since 1950, Keables' students have triumphed in the nationwide Scholastic Magazine writing contest with 20 first prizes, twelve seconds and 21 thirds. Last week the record was even more impressive. With 23 winners, Denver became the nation's top high school-writing city-and nine of Denver's winners were Keables' students. The No. i winner: South High's tiny, pretty Sherry Granzow, 17, a psychologist's daughter and one of Keables' seniors. She walked off with the Ernestine Taggard Memorial Award, Scholastic's highest honor. She was the third Keables student...
...established a "little symphony" to play rare music - both ancient and mod ern - extended the symphony's subscription series from 8 to 22 concerts, tripled both the budget and the total season at tendance. The Seattle Symphony now includes 85 musicians, nearly a third of them women; the majority have to hold other, daytime jobs (aircraft engineer, longshoreman, school bus driver) to supplement their $2,000 pay; many teach music. Above all, Katims introduced 75 works never before played in Seattle, e.g., Orff's Carmina Burana, Mahler's monumental Resurrection Symphony, Walton's Belshazzar...
...Third Act. The rebirth of Manichaeism can be seen in the theater. Modern tragedy attaches "a very dubious quality of worthlessness, threat, evil, absurdity, to the whole world of situation and existence . . . How often in our generation have we seen the tragic protagonist who is cursed by the necessity of walking, victim and innocent, through an insane world. We need only recall such plays as Sherwood's Idiot's Delight, Paul Green's Johnny Johnston, or Anderson's Key Largo and Winterset, while Sartre gave a definitive formulation, in theory and on the stage...