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...first big event on the schedule was the parade down Michigan Avenue: Doc Johnson's boys and some 1,500 other temple bandsmen; the Medinah nobles in $42,500 worth of new uniforms; the country's leading citizens decked out like Zouaves and harem guards; Imperial Potentate Galloway Calhoun of Tyler, Tex., sitting in a car in a bower of 120,000 Texas roses; 1,000 chanters (glee clubs), drill teams, the mounted Pinto Patrol from Oklahoma City, the Black Horse Patrol from the Kansas City, Mo. Ararat Temple (whose most illustrious noble is Harry S. Truman...
Despite the more local frantic antics of 2000 high school musicians who cavorted between the halves of the Donelli-led Boston University upset over Colgate in Fenway Park, the New England accolade for musical mayhem still went to the Crimson bandsmen over the weekend...
William J. Bingham '16, H.A.A. director, explained that the Athletic Association provides the wherewithal for 100 bandsmen to make one trip away from Cambridge each year. He questioned yesterday the necessity of the Band accompanying the team to other than the Yale or Princeton tilts...
Skilled as they are in letter-perfect footwork, the Band knows the score musically as well. Bandsmen proudly explain that "Wintergreen," their most popular number, has more to it than meets the ear and is actually a blending of 2 Harvard, 2 Yale, 1 Dartmouth, and 1 Princeton songs, all mixed in with "Of Thee I Sing" and then wafted up the aisles of the Stadium. The semicircle formation used to offset the alphabetical parade down the field is an original idea and "Wintergreen" when first heard was considered a daring innovation. People weren't sure whether concert-type arrangements...
...bandsmen are reportedly guarding their big base drum in an unspecified hideout, anticipating a possible Terrier assault, and bagpiper Leigh Cross '51 was practising assiduously as rumors of a B. U. piper filtered in to the Paine Music Building last night...