Word: almanacers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Practice for that Rose Bowl game against Oregon started about December 1. It is described at length by Robert Fisher '12 in "The II Book of Harvard Athletics" an almanac of Harvard grid, crew, baseball history published by the Varsity club...
Deep Sea Chanteys and Sod Buster Ballads (Almanac Singers; two General albums). In the former, the vagrant, gusty Almanackers toss off Blow the Man Down, Blow Ye Winds High-O, etc. The other set is a random survey of such Americana as Ground Hog ("Up comes Sal with a snicker and a grin, Ground Hog grease all over her chin...
Smartest users of music to make political points are the Almanac Singers, four young men who roam around the country in a $150 Buick and fight the class war with ballads and guitars. Their recorded collection Songs for John Doe, ably hewed to the then Moscow line, neatly phonograph-needled J. P. Morgan, E. I. du Pont de Nemours and particularly war (TIME, June 16). The three discs of Talking Union, on sale last week under the Keynote label, lay off the isolationist business now that the Russians are laying it on the Germans...
Honest U.S. isolationists last week got some help from recorded music that they would rather not have received. Released by the "Almanac Singers," a carefully anonymous Manhattan Communist ensemble, was an album of seven Songs for John...
...spell "Merry Christmas" in Greek. And a worried aunt checked up on the way the stripes in a crew tie run so as to make no mistake in her knitting. Quiz programs and the discovery by Greater Boston school kids that the phone is easier to use than the almanac have made less lonely the early evening hours of the two phonemen...