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...Harvard band sprawled its comely H's across a while striped green gridiron come half-time at Soldiers Field on a crisp Saturday afternoon. But this year, things are different, and the Harvard University Band, the only band in the country controlled exclusively by its members, will once again cavort before weekend throngs at all nine (count 'em, nine) football games this year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Thumping Loudly, University Band's Drum Will Again Be on Field Between Halves | 9/19/1946 | See Source »

...lives on a scale befitting his eminence. There is an organ in his $50,000 lakeshore house near Cleveland. Outside, a small herd of deer and a covey of pheasants cavort on the grounds. His recreation room is equipped with Pullman berths for visiting union brothers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: These Two Men | 6/3/1946 | See Source »

...Carmen Jones strikes out boldly for itself-for a pulsating Negro gaiety. Not into Lillas Pastia's dim tavern, but into a packed and glittering night spot, does Husky Miller make his first royal entrance. Instead of hiding out in a smugglers' den, the Carmen Jones crowd cavort and click their heels at a swanky Negro country club...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Musical in Manhattan, Dec. 13, 1943 | 12/13/1943 | See Source »

Brooks Heath, and Jim Apthrop, another member of the sextet, will probably hold down outfield positions. Jim Gallagher and Jay Gleason are expected by Stahl to cavort in the infield this spring...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BASEBALL SQUAD TAKES SHAPE IN DAILY SESSIONS | 2/17/1943 | See Source »

...solution: Caniff, beginning last week, draws a lusty, weekly strip for Army newspapers but calls it Male Call, gives his characters names not used in the regular Terry strip. To replace Terry's beautiful, bosomy Burma, there will be a dark, Orientalish, bosomy Caniff gal who will cavort in usual Burma fashion, wisecrack as lustily as the Army-version Burma...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Sub for Burma | 2/1/1943 | See Source »

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