Word: champion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Shaw lead in current hot-fan popularity, challengers of their positions are not wanting. High on the list of contenders is the well-balanced band fronted by Singer Bob Crosby. The Bob Cats, exponents of a modernized Dixieland Style, are well-regarded by discerning swing fans. Another potential champion is the band headed by diminutive Bobby Hackett, whose graceful, sure trumpet, as well as his down-the-middle hair-comb and tiny mustache, is reminiscent of the late great Bix Beiderbecke...
...pound class, Johnnie Bragg '41, Winthrop House champion, will find strong opposition in Dave Simboll '40 who was in the finals last year. Henry Kelly '40, of Eliot House, is undefeated in the 155-pound class and stands a good chance...
Bobby Green '39, who was captain of his Freshman team is up against Roger Downs '40, last year's defending champion in the 165-pound group...
...Connecticut, with such friends as Dorothy Parker (who suggested the title for The Little Foxes), Dashiell Hammett, Arthur Kober. But today, awake to the troubled world around her, Lillian Hellman loafs seldom. Militantly antifascist, she two years ago spent a month under bombardment visiting Loyalist Spain, returned to champion its cause all over the U. S. Her next play will be a dramatization of one of the earliest and one of the greatest of social-minded novels, Zola's Germinal...
Amos Murphy, gigantic Sophomore, former Connecticut Interscholastic Champion, came through to prove his Freshman record last year was no fluke. Another Sophomore from whom great things are expected is Lyn Brua...