Word: banjo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Idaho's banjo-playing Senator Glen H. Taylor, who served Henry Wallace as a combination singing cowboy and vice-presidential candidate in last November's election, announced the results of a bit of deductive thought. Interviewed last week on the Meet the Press radio show, he said that he had concluded that the "American people do not want a splinter party." In danger of becoming a splinter himself if he didn't get Democratic Party support for re-election next year, Glen added melodiously that he was no longer "associated" in any way with H. Wallace...
...Bert Jefferson, the young editor and romantic lead. He never was able to act with the conviction of the others on stage. Peter Dibble's Dr. Bradley, John Mannick's Mr. Stanley, and David Bowen's Beverly Carlton were all capable, though not inspired performances. Bob Cipes as Banjo made the most of the action and the least, of his lines--but they're very funny lines, and it didn't matter much...
...wife of Alan F. Winslow '47, president of the Hasty Pudding Theatricals, will play the lead opposite Monty Woolley in the role of Maggie Cutler, the "Man's" secretary. Pola Chasman of Emerson College will appear as Lorraine Sheldon, and Robert M. Cipes '50 takes the part of Banjo. Paul S. Burggraf '48 will play Bert Jefferson...
...horn "looked better"). In 1926, when he dropped some lyrics on the floor during a recording session, he quickly substituted nonsense syllables, and added "scat-singing" to jazz. He had formed "Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five" (Satchmo, Clarinetist Johnny Dodds, Trombonist Kid Ory, Johnny St. Cyr on the banjo and second wife Lil Hardin Armstrong on the piano) to make recordings of his best numbers for Okeh. When he played Chicago, such youngsters as Bix Beiderbecke, Benny Goodman, Gene Krupa and Eddie Condon, who were to help create the "Chicago school" of jazz, sat and listened worshipfully...
...seven-girl team of Radcliffe commuters with a banjo and an 11-stanza ditty set to the tune of "Hair of Gold" won the second annual Song Contest at the Annex Quadrangle last night. They will keep the prize--a silver loving cup--for one year...