Word: basins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...third straight year, the crews of Eliot House swept the Charles in the finals of the House races held over a placid Henley in the basin yesterday afternoon. In the day's other trials, Frank Cunningham's Jayvee 150's upset the Varsity lightweights, and the Jayvee heavies reasserted their superiority over the third Varsity...
...Basin Street was conceived as a lampoon of the hot-potato pomposities com mon to the presentation of formal music...
Fortnight ago Basin Street added a comedian, Sam ("Zero") Mostel, a 27-year-old six-footer barely out of his swaddling clothes as a professional entertainer. A painter by training and profession, Mostel was only the hit of his friends' parties until February, when a press agent landed him in a Manhattan night spot, Cafe Society. Since then he has been signed for the forthcoming Victor Moore-William Gaxton show Keep 'Em Laughing and last week rode off on a 13 -week Basin Street contract...
With rant, doubletalk and repetitious exaggeration, Mostel achieves a weirdly intelligent satire. His first efforts for Basin Street pleased the studio audience more than they did radio listeners, but Mostel, new to the microphone, last week reduced his dependence on pantomime. Some of his established impersonations: an isolationist Senator ("What the hell was Hawaii doing in the Pacific?"); Charles Boyer cooing to Hedy Lamarr ; Hitler explaining his withdrawal from Russia...
Despite its changes in talent, Basin Street holds to its original idea, contrasting proper jazz with modern arrangements, needling the long-haired musicologists, giving original readings of such compositions as "Opus 33, First Door to the Left." The musicianship is sound; NBC Symphony players willingly take part, and well-known guest musicians need no fat fees as lure. The program's appeal was demonstrated when one week's script warned that Basin Street might be lost in a network budget cut and brazenly asked for letters to prove its popularity. ("If you must write two letters, be sure...