Word: drives
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which brought three encore demands from the crowd solely on the basis of the life that she put into the thing. Eila's singing is a lot like a good "dig" tenor sax player: she sings most of her licks ahead of the beat, so that you get a drive effect which packs power in quantity. Result is that she is just about the back-bone of Chick's band...
...sings . . . Also heard the Victor Herbert album, and while it isn't swing, it is swell melodic stuff--recorded perfectly and done in admirable taste--and is a relief from tunes like "Three Little Fishies"--for which Harvard may or may not be responsible, but which is guaranteed to drive almost any one crazy . . . For a change, and due to Cozy Cole's drumming, Lionel Hampden has turned out a fine record this week in "High Society...
...Freshman Committee of Phillips Brooks House are planning an old clothes and book drive for this week. Although in the last clothes drive, not as much apparel was collected as was expected, in the last book collection over a ton of magazines was amassed from willing donors...
...Sarles Durstine had already been a newspaperman, publicity man for the Bull Moose campaign and an advertising agent when he helped direct a campaign that raised $150,000,000 to aid U. S. soldiers. His helpers in that Wartime drive were a Buffalo charity man named Alex F. Osborn and Bruce Barton, who had once written advertising copy for Dr. Eliot's Five-Foot Shelf. In 1919 Durstine and Barton started an advertising agency, took in Osborn a few months later. Three harddriving, ambitious men, Barton, Durstine & Osborn turned the advertising business upside down during the 1920s...
...Tucson, Ariz., Marjorie Volke set out for a drive, noticed a traffic ticket under her automobile's windshield wiper. Without stopping her car she reached for the ticket, skidded into a hydrant, released a geyser. Autoist Volke's bill (for the hydrant...