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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Record Society, and which I was unable to review when they were released six weeks ago. The band playing is called Jack Teagarden's Big Eight, and includes Teagarden, Rex Stewart (trumpet), Ben Webster (tenor sax), Barney Bigard (clarinet), Billy Kyle (piano), Billy Taylor (bass), and Dave Tough (drums). The tunes are: St. James' Infirmary, Shine, The World Is Waiting for The Sunrise, and Big Eight Blues...
...that I can add. However, I would like to mention a fact which impresses me as making the date doubly important, and that is the opportunity given to Ben Webster and Billy Kyle, and of which opportunity they made the very best. Needless to say, Teagarden, Stewart, and Dave Tough are their magnificent selves, as you would expect, and as you've heard on pretty nearly everything they've done. However, a musician like Ben Webster, although his work ranks with that of Coleman Hawkins and Chu Berry, has never received half the recognition he deserves. Yet what he does...
...Burns and Pete Sax fall within the 175-pound bracket. Dug has wrestled in every meet so far, and has lost his bout in only one. Heavyweights Howle Gleason, Doug DeCoster, Dave Vaughan, Bob Burns, and John Corrigan are the present rivals for the top group. Glesson and DeCoster have wrestled in two meets apiece, while 175-pound Pete Sax has fought one scrap for the heavies...
Burditt, the captain and leading scorer, was the center on last year's All West Suburban Conference five, which consisted of players chosen from seven Illinois high schools near Chicago. His teammate, Dave Wrisley, plays on the second team of the Dartmouth Freshmen. One of the teams in the Conference, Glenbard, contributed Jim Olsen, Dartmouth's gigantic Sophomore center...
Although Coach Jack Barnaby's squash team lost two good men, Hal Baker and Dave DeKruif, they easily won their match with Amherst on Saturday by a score of 8 to 1. Especially heartening to Coach Barnaby was the easy victory of Tom Sears, a Sophomore and who has just become eligible. He should help to fill the gap left by Baker and DeKruif...