Word: beatness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Harvard is a dead-beat in the East Coast jazz world. Still, subdued, or even anemic, the crimson jazz scene is far from defunct. Today merely marks a downswing in the whimsical curve that has plotted the campus jazz-wise since long before Count Basie wrote his Harvard Blues back when college life in Cambridge meant big bands and hot sounds. A strange student apathy explains why interested elements make so little noise here today, and what passes for apathy stems less from dislike than from lack of jazz education and organization...
...cautious Pat Brown. He was easily the best-liked kid at San Francisco's Lowell High School, served as cheerleader and wanted desperately to be elected president of the student body. "But the captain of the football team was running," says Brown, "and I was afraid he would beat me." Pat ran for secretary instead-and won, while the football captain was beaten for president by someone else. "As secretary," says Brown, "I was miserable. I felt left out of things...
...familiar gamble. All his days he had given odds to death and won. Born near the French seaport of Calais, the son of a wealthy and aristocratic family, De Bisschop at 14 ran away from a Jesuit seminary, signed 'on as cabin boy on a sailing ship that beat its way around Cape Horn...
...About the only new-sounding gimmick the TV programers had promised for the new season were the "fantastics." CBS beat the drums for weeks over The World of Giants, a projected series about a man shrunk to 6-in. size by an accidental burst of radiation. Loudly sung but unsold WOG died before its tiny hero saw an electronic screen. Only fantastic now left on the CBS books: H. G. Wells s familiar old Invisible...
With ruthless efficiency, Shields and Columbia beat Weatherly twice and Easterner once, and Mosbacher and Vim beat Easterner once and Weatherly twice. The selection committee eliminated both Weatherly (seven wins, seven losses) and Easterner (no wins, 14 losses), thereby cleared the decks for the final duel between Columbia (eleven wins, four defeats), owned by a New York Yacht Club syndicate, and Vim (ten wins, five defeats), owned by Business Executive John N. Matthews...