Word: bands
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Kahn's Band...
Read about Roger Wolfe Kahn, amused, pleased [TIME, Sept. 19]. Kahn's Perroqueet [Manhattan night club] stopped flapping last Spring, a flop. His band has usually been a flop, lacking personality. He gets jobs at small figures, boosting the payroll out of his pocket. He hires big stars who get extraordinary salaries and really play but the public doesn't pay to hear music, rather to see personality. Kahn plays many instruments, but how? His arrangers and players make the music good. Will you ask a few musicians if this is not so-your New York office...
...thousand men of Harvard will be denied the pleasure of seeing the Purdue band in action at the encounter in the Stadium today. One hundred and twenty-five men of Purdue, comprising the membership of the band, were unable to secure the necessary permission of the Board of Trustees to make the trip from Indiana to Cambridge...
News that the big bass drum of Purdue will not boom in the Stadium this afternoon brings disappointment to the potential spectators, but relief to the Harvard Band. For according to rumor, the musicians who so unfortunately stayed at home not only possess the most gigantic drum in the history of Lafayette, Indiana, but are a group of men whose manoeuvres on the gridiron are equalled only by the warriors once in moleskin and silk. There was a time, just after the war, when the Harvard Band had a monopoly on football music, or at least on intermission parades...
Even if the Hoosier Band had arrived to match its skill with the best Harvard can offer, there would have been no consternation in the stands. For Harvard has confidence in its musicians--only too often, indeed, it has had to depend on them to defend its glory on the gridiron. Those exercisers of lung and finger carry the Crimson standard high as they parade through the goalposts--before the game--and again when they return courtesy for courtesy between the halves. Only one really pernicious habit has cropped out in the Harvard Band. It made its first appearance...