Word: bandsman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Paul B. Finney '50, Band Manager, said last night that the band had received a similar notice from Watson not to perform any skits on the field which might reflect on other colleges. This edict, Finney asserted, would apply to any bandsman dressed up as an Indian, Bear, or Tiger. Finney also claims that there had been repercussions from Dartmouth and University Hall concerning the "Indian that came out of the cocktail glass" the band formed at the Dartmouth game...
...Brown Medley," Columbia Medley," and a new medley of Yale songs, "Serenade for the Blue," all arranged by a former bandsman, John Finnegan '47, were played for the first time last fall...
...band manager Walter J. Skinner '48, pert little Priscilla Cook might have led the "best in the business" into the stadium this week. As it was, she brushed the teardrops from her eyes last night and asked herself why nobody wanted her. B.U. had started all her troubles when bandsman Warren Freeman decided his cohorts could do without her and offered her to the Jawn Harvards...
...Baker, expatriate American whose bouncy scorchdancing made her the rich brown toast of Paris musicomedy for years, got ready for her third marriage. Husband No. I had been a Negro tap dancer, No. 2 a wealthy French manufacturer. No. 3-to-be: Jo Bouillon, top-ranking white French jazz bandsman...
...Bandsman Tommy Dorsey let it be known, through his business representative, that he had separated from his second wife, Actress Pat Dane. Barrel-chested Cinemactor Brian Donlevy got a divorce after complaining that his wife 1) had been complaining for ten years, and 2) had been so busy for the past three years that he could never get a date with her. Greer Garson, 38, officially announced her separation from her second husband, Actor Richard Ney, 28 (who played her son in Mrs. Miniver). "Like many other married couples," Miss Garson observed, "we have had difficulties...