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...hard to believe, but we were skiing last year as late as July 20," he added, explaining that the Club's cabin near Tuckerman's Ravine at the base of Mount Washington is in a place where the snow lingers unusually long. The cabin can bunk 25 men, and is always filled by weekend delegations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 2/6/1947 | See Source »

...average English-speaking listener, the announcement sounded like just one more of New York's many foreign-language broadcasts. But to jazz cultists, the strange words signaled the best jazz-music program on the air: a thorough course in jazz literature from Bunk Johnson to Dizzy Gillespie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Prisoners of WOV | 1/20/1947 | See Source »

From his appearance one would hardly guess that Edmond Hall has been playing jazz clarinet as long as anyone in the business and can remember when the Methusalah of the trumpet, Bunk Johnson, was still a youngster. As a matter of fact, he says, Bunk wasn't one of the big boys even in the days when he still had his own teeth. Buddy Petit, Freddy Keppard and Joe Oliver were the real trumpet kings...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jazz | 11/22/1946 | See Source »

...Bunk" was the most prevalent answer in an informal undergraduate poll taken yesterday to determine student opinion on the H.A.A. policy of excluding women from the cheering sections, 33 through 36. H.A.A. officials had previously declared that "the rule was being applied in the belief that student wanted women kept out of those sections...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Informal Student Poll Shows Disapproval of H.A.A. Ticket System | 10/26/1946 | See Source »

...Boris Rose of New York is doing some interesting experimentation on the reduction of surface noise on reissues. He has worked on some of the ancient gems like the Sam Morgan set which featured many of Bunk's present side men when they still possessed all of their faculties, and could easily be persuaded to part with some of these...

Author: By Robert NORTON Ganz, | Title: Jazz | 9/27/1946 | See Source »

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