Word: alto
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Engaged. Donald Budge, 25, redheaded, bucktoothed professional tennis champ; and Deirdre Conselman, Stanford sophomore, daughter of the late Bill Conselman, creator of the Ella Cinders comic strip; in Palo Alto, Calif...
...Washington, always a half-hour late for appointments that extended all the way around the clock. When the loan was finally approved by Jesse Jones last week, the plans were ready. Three days later the plant site was being cleared next to the Permanente cement works near Palo Alto. Dr. Hansgirg, who likes to wear slippers at work and think things over twice, was still bewildered. Said he of the blueprinting: "Somehow we did in three weeks what nobody can do in less than four months...
Band number three is a small colored combination playing at Johnny Wilson's somewhere on Tremont Street, if I remember rightly (better look it up in the phone book). The band is led by one Sherman Freeman, who plays alto and clarinet with a nice gutty tone, blending wonderfully with the completely undisciplined style of the rest of the band. It's pretty wild stuff, and you won't care for it if you expect to hear singing song titles and Tex Beneke whistling choruses, but if you feel like listening to five musicians who have the right idea about...
...informality that's always welcome, even at a white tie and orchid affair. Last week at Winthrop, a lot of the fun was due purely to the fact that three was a nice domestic atmosphere, what with everybody coming up to request We Three and ask the lead alto for his Ec 61 notes. Well, maybe I'm all wet, but those are the kind of dances I like, and I hope we have more of them...
...they completed their amazing jump from cellar to Rose Bowl, outplaying California (13-to-7), just as they had outplayed San Francisco, Oregon, Santa Clara, Washington State, Southern California, U. C. L. A., Washington, Oregon State. Amid the loudest whoops that had been heard in Palo Alto since Ernie Nevers' day, the Indians sat down to a powwow, tried to decide whom they wanted to tackle at Pasadena on New Year...