Word: bande
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nine years ago a band leader named Ben Pollack was drawing hot music's purists to Chicago's Southmoor Hotel. His band, a future who's who of jazz, included a solemn, bespectacled clarinetist named Benny Goodman, a shockheaded, galvanic drummer named Gene Krupa, a rangy, adolescent trombonist with an Iowa accent named Alton Glenn Miller. As the years went by, and hot jazz built up from a provincial ripple to a national tidal wave, Clarinetist Goodman rode to shore on its crest and was crowned King of Swing...
...Clarinetist Goodman retained his crown. But by last spring a lusty group of pretenders was after it. Chief among them - was a youngster named Artie Shaw. Last March, while King Goodman and Pretender Shaw fought a battle of music in Newark, N. J. (TIME, March 6), a brand-new band was drawing some discriminating New Jersey jitterbugs to the Meadowbrook Club in neighboring Cedar Grove. Leading it was Ben Pollack's old trombonist, Glenn Miller...
Before the game the members of the band will spell out the letters of HARVARD, playing a different tune with each letter. "Our Director," "Soldiers Field," "Gridiron King," "10,000 Men," "Onward to the Goal," and "Score," a tun written especially for Yale games, will be played in that order. The band will then spell out ELI in script, and form an II facing the Harvard stands...
During the half intermission, the band will give a rendition of a Yale medley, arranged by Leroy Anderson '29. For its last number, it has decided to form a shield with VERITAS in the center and march off the field...
...trucking John Harvard in the Crimson Band's between-the-half show lured the Yale bulldog safely into the big drum with cardboard bone marked victory...