Word: clubbings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Warm Springs: Budget Director Harold Smith, who talked about cutting non-military expenses; Mayor the Reverend Mr. Woodfin G. Harry, who made a speech; the Warm Springs Women's Club, which sang;* pretty, yellow-headed Patient Ann Smithers, age six, who won the right to sit at the President's table at the Thanksgiving dinner, gnawed a drumstick despite the fact that her baby teeth are falling out; the Georgia Congressional delegation, minus Senator George, who withstood the New Deal's purge. "There was no invitation for me to go," explained Senator George...
John Metoyer, an olive-brown pixie who founded the Zulu Social Aid and Pleasure Club in a woodshed 30 years ago, had never been King of the Zulus. He hardly cared. As daily host to the Zulus at his cafe (now called the Brown Bomber) on Perdido Street, he was the uncrowned soul of Zulu. And at last, this year, John Metoyer was elected King...
...Harlem, Satchelmouth announced that he could not go to the funeral. "Poor John," he mourned, "he was a great guy." Poor John's relatives announced that they and not the Zulu Social Aid and Pleasure Club were running this funeral, reduced it to a respectable affair with only one band, pall bearers in tuxedos and white gloves, no grass skirts, no coconuts. Said John Metoyer's heir apparent to the Zulu presidency, Charles Fisher: "If it was me and I died right now, I'd have the biggest funeral in the history of New Orleans...
Leonard Kent '43, who received his dramatic training at Haverford School, plays the part of the stolid and dependable Henry. Guy Clements '40, a veteran of many productions of the Club, will be Joe, a Harlem Negro. His previous acting at Harvard includes leading roles in "Cannibal Carnival," "Dog Beneath the Skin," and "Jonah and the Whale...
...Freshmen took their first step toward future stardom by winning the weekly rhumba contest at the Zero Hereford Club Wednesday night. Braving a large crowd of contestants, the two Yardlings. Robert W. Lerner and Winslow B. Ayer, and their escorts hit the groove in that old Cuban...