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...studying architecture and engineering. His younger brother Tom and the boy next door, a dark, antic trap-drummer named Poley McClintock, had a two-piece piano & drums outfit that used to pick up occasional pin money playing for Victory dances, etc. They invited Fred, a violinist who preferred the banjo to join in. Another banjoist, Fred Buck, joined too. Four-strong, they barnstormed Pennsylvania's busy mining district, picked up a sax player or so, a trumpeter, a trombonist, soon had ten players. Soon the burgeoning Pennsylvanians were on the road, on the air, in the movies for good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Fred Waring, Inc. | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

...moved lock, stock and barrel, not to mention old-fashioned banjo clocks and row on row of used suits, to 1109 Mass, Ave. Above his now store hangs a neon sign bearing the legend "Max Keezer--College Clothes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MAX KEEZER TRANSFERS EMPORIUM FROM SQUARE | 10/19/1938 | See Source »

...clerk at the U. S. War Department last week administered an oath of office to a short but not swart, buck-toothed Spaniard. Manuel Quezon, President of the Philippine Commonwealth, had picked last spring this new man to be Philippine Resident Commissioner at Washington, succeeding banjo-eyed Politician Quintin Paredes. The new man's name, Joaquin Miguel ("Mike") Elizalde, is virtually the Philippine equivalent of Harold S. ("Mike") Vanderbilt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PHILIPPINES: Commissioner Mike | 10/10/1938 | See Source »

...clubs, which include the Banjo Club, Mandolin Club, Vocal Club, specialty groups, and the Goldcoast Orchestra, will unite in presenting, before the winter recess, a vaudeville show to be played at Cambridge, Salem and New York. Out of the 100 members of the clubs, 48 will make the annual Christmas trip to Buffalo, Detroit, Milwaukee, and elsewhere, for the first five days of vacation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INSTRUMENTAL CLUBS MAP OUT BUSY SEASON | 9/28/1938 | See Source »

Last night's release "expects" Bayard S. Clark '40 to be master of ceremonies, coordinating and working in specialists, among others, impersonators, a rope spinner, a "swing" trio, a banjo soloist, an octet, and any additional talent scouted among the Class of 1942. The show will be on the singe continually, save for one intermision, during a period of 90 minutes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NEW TYPE SHOW RULED BY INSTRUMENTALISTS | 6/8/1938 | See Source »

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