Word: bands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Leroy Anderson '29 will conduct one of the largest musical units ever to play at Soldiers Field when the Band holds its 40th reunion on Dartmouth Weekend...
...modern American composer is one of many former Band greats who will return to march, three to four hundred strong, during the halftime show...
Other returning Band members include Frederick L. Reynolds '20, founder of the Band, Guy V. Slade '32, its first drill-master, and John W. Green '28, composer of Body and Soul...
Corned Beef & Congolese. Besides bombarding Belgian officials and missionaries with letters threatening them with death unless they clear out, the Congolese have begun quarreling among themselves. Last week, at the Kitona paratroop base, 180 men were wounded, after a band of Bakongo tribesmen threw up picket lines to keep non-Bakongo workers away from their jobs. In Moanda, where the" Abako Party has been accusing chiefs of selling out depinda (independence) for a million Congolese francs, at least one chief's house has been burned to the ground, and tension runs so high that Belgian youngsters...
...with his hands. After dinner, there were games. If the game was chess, the officers had to stand throughout, and Napoleon almost invariably lost unless the other player sycophantically threw the game. At other times, Napoleon read aloud from Racine, Corneille and Moliere. Sometimes he held the little band spellbound with accounts of his great campaigns. After one such evening, he stared into space and said: "After all, what a romance my life has been...