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...Huston learned about peanuts in Texas. He saw so many of them on his father's farm that a weaker man in his position might have hated the sight of them, turned to other things. But Tom Huston explains: "It wasn't the goobers I hated so much as it was the shelling...
...What did you say to the teller next to you?" asked the newshawks. "It was Will Brown, wasn't it? Why did he shake his head...
...music-drama. Composer Taylor started work with a Wagner-type opera in mind, but found the German form somehow did not naturally evolve. Was it especially "American?" he was asked. Replied he: "Perhaps some of the rhythm might be deemed so, but that is for the critics. However, I wasn't attempting to make it such...
...When I arrived in Sparta I said, 'Show me Sparta.' There wasn't any. The Eurotas rolled by, a pretty, limpid stream, but about as wide as this piece of furniture. In the museum, which is about as large as this room, there are a statue and a vase, both Attic. They're all that Sparta has left. I expected to find a countryside as dour as [the ancient Spartans], but no ?great fertility, vines bearing enormous grapes. And I crossed the Taigeta, which is something of a mountain, I assure you, and arrived at a place called something...
Harwood Ellis wasn't even regular University goalie at the beginning of the season and he didn't acquire first team rating until the third or fourth game. He showed a steady improvement all along the season and by the time the Yale series rolled around he had developed into one of the East's finest. A great deal of his daring and added ability in the Eli series was due to some extra coaching that he got from "Tiny" Thompson the Bruins' star, during the Harvard-Bruins scrimmage.... Charlie Cunningham was named on the first. All-American hockey team...