Word: beatings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wasn't swing: toothy Stan Kenton had already pronounced that "dead, gone, finished." Some doubted that it was even jazz: it had a shifty beat (and sometimes none), little-if any-form, and even less improvisation. Most of it sounded like Duke Ellington with the D.T.s. But when Kenton's band got to pushing out such huge, screeching blotches of sound as Artistry Jumps and Message to Harlem, the fans ripped the place wide open. They listened to his newest and most pretentious masterpiece;, Prologue Suite in Four Movements, in a state of glassy somnam-bulance. When Kenton...
Cornell, who beat the Varsity last month 57 to 45 at Ithaca, is even stronger now, with the return of Billary Chellet, an all-league guard last year. Chellet will start at forward alongside Bob Gale (six-six) and Ed Peterson (six-nine). Those two men must be stepped if Harvard is to win tonight...
Sunday, at the Concord jumping championships, the Crimson revived, made a treaty with lady luck, and beat the field of over forty contestants on the 30 meter jump. Griffin, who fell at Dartmouth, won the day with flights of 103 and 101 feet, while Coach Bill Halsey took third and Genn fourth...
Unless the hockey team can rise to Olympian heights, tonight's 8:30 o'clock tilt with Dartmouth should be little more than the crowning blow to an already dismal week on the rink. Unable to produce against B.U. or Princeton, there seems little hope for the Crimson to beat a Big Green outfit that has won 15 games in 16 starts this season...
...make a carnaval hit: a catchy tune (reminiscent of the Maine Stein Song) and a daffy lyric. Because the government was out to make carnaval bigger & better after some wartime flops, De Barro and Ribeiro wrote Cat in lilting, one-step marcha time-quicker even than the sprightly samba beat...