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Three walks, a sacrifice hit and a tworun scoring bloop double for Nichols in the eighth inning spelled Crimson defeat for the first time this season. Jim Congleton relieved Hoffman and was the victim of the banjo blow. The JV's next game is against Quonset Navel Station tomorrow...
...Crimson contingent, stopped by drifting snow in the middle of Scollay Square, took refuge inside the Big Drum and sent out squads of banjo players to buy coffee. The combined resources of band members met the price of only a single cup of brew, however, since tariff changes early this week sent coffee prices rocketing...
...winning question: to identify the first example of "scat" singing (Heebie Jeebies), the recording group (Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five) and all the players (Armstrong on the cornet, Kid Ory on the trombone, Johnny Dodds on the clarinet, John St. Cyr on the banjo, Mrs. Armstrong at the piano...
...still on a stage with an idiotic look on her face." Crazy. With this thought to goad him, and a stock of U.S. period pieces to lend atmosphere, Bernardin opened a night club in the style of the wild and woolly West, complete with waiters in candy-striped shirtsleeves, banjo players and a suitably active, shapely and deciduous stripper named Miss Fortunia. Fortunia's act at the Crazy Horse Saloon caught on like a prairie fire. By last week Le Striptease was sweeping Paris from Montparnasse to Montmartre, and even seeping out of the city to enliven the sleepy...
...home as soon after 5 as possible, taking a shower and a nap before dinner. Page and his wife (a former ballet dancer, author of a promising 1953 novel, The Bracelet) have two sons, 13 and 16. At college (Cornell '21), Page used to play "the long-necked banjo" to help pay his tuition. Now he has gone hifi, playing Mahler and Sibelius, while he gets in two or three more hours of medical reading or writing after dinner. Bedtime...