Word: batons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Baton Rouge went WPAdministrator Hopkins, Louisiana's Governor Leche, a full quota of Southern political and sporting notables to help dedicate a WPA addition to Louisiana State University's football stadium. Now the biggest in the South, L. S. U.'s stadium has seats for 50,000, dressing rooms, athletic offices and a dormitory for 100 students built into...
Jammed into Philadelphia's Academy of Music, the biggest audience of the season rubbered last week when Jazzmaster Paul Whiteman stepped briskly forth in a black coat, striped trousers and chalky spats, sporting an overgrown carnation and a yard-long baton. They rubbered also at the 25 musicians Mr. Whiteman had imported from his celebrated band to augment the efforts of 101 regular members of the Philadelphia Orchestra. For two hours, supported by the orchestra, the newcomers tooted saxophones, snorted through trombones, rattled wind machines, picked guitars, shrilled police whistles, thumped tom-toms, pumped accordions, wailed on bagpipes, clicked...
Always two steps ahead of the crowd, the band enters on its most ambitious afternoon of the year, according to baton-twirler Irwin. However, to show that there is really no bad blood between the rival syncopators, the Harvard and Yale bands will shake hands in musical style before the fight. After marching in the bands will form together an intertwined insignia of the two colleges. Then while in massed formation, the Crimson Director, Robert W. Snyder '38, will lead the Yale song and the director of the Yale band Otto H. Helbig '38 Mus., will lead the Harvard song...
...freight was wrecked, five cars derailed. Outside Alexandria a shower of bullets spattered the Shreveport-New Orleans Hustler, smashed a Pullman window, narrowly missed a passenger. At Winnfield birthplace of Huey Long, a howling pistolwaving, rock-throwing mob besieged a tramload of Louisiana State University football rooters returning to Baton Rouge after a game with the University of Arkansas at Shreveport. Train guards ordered all lights out. The passengers were forced to lie on the aisle floors for hours, keep up their courage by sucking at flasks until local police drove...
Captains Gaffney and Morrell then mentioned to Irwin that they would like to start playing again if he didn't want the field any more. "Yes", said the baton waver. As the referee approached for the fifth round the music ended in a triumphant and defiant thunder of drums, and the Band with proud smiles, retired in orderly retreat...