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...accepted the position on the condition that he be allowed to do it without pay. The Glee Club was a semi-social club which held concerts mainly because of the dances that followed and which performed with the aid of the Banjo and Mandolin Clubs...

Author: By Bruce M. Reeves, | Title: Doc' Davison: Faith in Worthwhile Music | 3/27/1954 | See Source »

Suspense (Mon. 8 p.m., CBS). Ethel Merman in Never Follow a Banjo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADIO: Program Preview, Feb. 1, 1954 | 2/1/1954 | See Source »

...team hit a homer. Nowadays, though "I still clown with my boys," Grimm no longer mugs for the fans. "It isn't that I've gone dignified," he explains. "It's strictly age" (54). "Jolly Cholly," who prides himself in being "the only left-handed banjo player in the majors," wisely refuses to pick Milwaukee for the pennant, but his banjo is plunking away on an old tune this week: Happy Days Are Here Again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Top of the League | 6/22/1953 | See Source »

...found surefire in attracting her father's attention. She played billiards on the third floor with her brothers, and harmonized in the music room with her sisters. She beat out hot rhythms on her brother's trap drum and played aggressive solos on kazoo, ukulele and banjo. She admired and envied her stately older sister Clara ("The Duchess"), and made life both miserable and exciting for her younger sisters, Mary Jane and Josephine. Mary Jane recalls: "I can't count the number of dark closets Ros locked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: The Comic Spirit | 3/30/1953 | See Source »

Lonesome and Sorry (Bernie Green's Orchestra; Victor). Green, a sort of highbrow Spike Jones, has a lot of fun with tuba solos, banjo, chimes, etc. in a tear-jerking oldtimer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Pop Records, Feb. 16, 1953 | 2/16/1953 | See Source »

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