Word: confrey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Five hits, plus an awesome display of bobbling by the Middlebury team, permitted the Varsity baseball team to score seven times in the eighth inning to win its first game in four starts by the score of 8 to 5. Until the eighth Bill Confrey, the small-sized Middlebury hurler, held the Crimson to three bits on the Soldiers Field diamond Saturday...
...young eye doctor. Dr. Stein's method was to sign exclusive rights with hotels and ballrooms. When band leaders found that they were unable to get jobs elsewhere, they came to work for him. As his roster of M.C.A. bands grew (Coon-Sanders, Isham Jones, Ted Weems, Zez Confrey), he expanded his interests. Nightclub operators discovered that it was efficient to do business with Dr. Stein. When they signed an M.C.A. band, they found that in the same package they could get floor shows, liquor, table favors. Band leaders also learned that Stein owned the Rolls-Royce and Buick...