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...wasn't H.R. Puf'nstuf. It wasn't even Oreo Doublestuff. By 8:00 last Saturday night, people were talking anxiously, especially the thousand fans at Sanders Theatre, about the Din & Tonics and their mysterious "Free Stuff" Jam. By 11:00, everyone at the concert was armed with a fantastic doorprize. And the Dins were being hailed as the "hottest group on campus...
...those who do not believe, as comedian George Carlin professes, that life is just a big collection of stuff, the question remains: why the stuff? Din President Alexander F. Beckett, who created the theme, answers, "We went right for students' instincts. We knew the tackiest gimmick would draw people...
...Din President-elect James McMahon was instrumental in what Beckett calls the Dins' "search for new sources." Having studied the South African singing group Ladysmith Black Mombazo, McMahon arranged both the dance and the music for a risky version of "You Can Call Me Al," soloed by Larry "Wheel of Fortune" Witdorchic. McMahon's fused all of Ladysmith's guttural African sounds, along with Paul Simon's quiet New York nasality, into one arrangement...
Similarly, the Din and Tonics were founded nine years ago because "a few former Kroks felt that there weren't enough a capella singing groups at Harvard," Beckett says...
Because of these group-to-group variations, "there is not too much potential for overlap," Krok Director Frusztajer says tongue-in-cheek. "You'd probably never catch the Kroks singing a Din and Tonics song like "Walk Like an Egyptian...