Word: warm-up
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...harpist) playing Victor Herbert dinner music. Then, after dinner, everyone repaired to the East Room, and the tone and tempo changed abruptly. Casals and his noted colleagues, Violinist Alexander Schneider and Pianist Mieczyslaw Horszowski, had decided to forgo the dinner in favor of a short rest and a warm-up rehearsal. They had also ignored the formal order of the night, appeared in black tie because Casals is uncomfortable playing in tails...
...rest of the Ivies last week it was warm-up time, and not a bad showing. In addition to Harvard and Brown, Princeton was the only Ivy squad to lose, dropping its contest with Rutgers...
...Crimson swimming team finished its pre-Yale warm-up tour with a leisurely 57 1/2-35 1/2 victory over a decimated Penn squad Saturday in the Quakers' home pool. The varsity didn't even bother to enter two men in several events...
After this lavish warm-up, Kennedy turned on all his political steam: he said he had come to New York "without an escort" and quipped that Tom Dewey was out in California "giving Dick Nixon some last-minute advice on strategy." "You all know the elephants in the circus--little imagination and long memory--how each hangs on to the tail of the one in front. Well, in 1952 and 1956, Dick Nixon hung on to that tail, but this year he's running alone." Kennedy listed, selectively, some 20th century Republican candidates ("just listen to those names") and said...
...varsity baseball team ran into a Berkshire thunderstorm, and Mouse Kasarjian ran into a warm-up throw from the catcher--both in the fourth inning--but the Williams nine failed to provide much of a problem as the Crimson captured the home-and-home series with a 6-1 victory Saturday...