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...long time ago--30 years to be exact--spectators at Harvard football games were entertained by the University Banjo and Mandolin Clubs. In 1919, with the season already underway, a group of musicians decided that Soldiers Field fans needed a little more pop and a hand might add the needed virility to the then all-male cheering section...
There aren't any more Banjo and Mandolin Clubs, but there haven't been any complaints yet for the Harvard Band now ranks among the nation's finest, either on the gridiron or on the concert stage...
During that first season it shared playing time with the Banjo and Mandolin Clubs, which had combined under one management, and the Glee Club, all sitting in the same section...
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...