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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Count's band, when it's on, is "the best swing band in the country." The quote marks enclose a remark of Mr. Goodman's. It has the greatest rhythm section ever put together. Proof offered is any one of Count's solos wherein you get his weird boogie piano backed by rhythm which is quiet, but which seems to say "Out of our way, we've swing to play." Get the Count to play you some slow blues with Jimmy Rushing singing a chorus, Lester Young playing clarinet, and piano by Mr. Basic himself; then go home...
...Dunster House dance of a week ago forces this reviewer to add Jack Teagarden's outfit to the Red Norvo-Jimmy Dorsey classification of coming bands. The band has excellent arrangements, is very danceable, Jack's trombone playing is as great as it ever was, and the total effect is very good. Highlight of the evening was Jack's playing a waltz at special request, and proceeding to play the blues in three-four time. Suggested exercise for prospective track men; Walk up to anybody in Jack's band and say that Tommy Dorsey is the world's greatest trombone...
Finishing the finest season it has ever enjoyed, the squash team defeated The Tennis and Racquets Club 3 to 2 yesterday afternoon...
Coach Barnaby's racquetmen completed their schedule without dropping a single intercollegiate match and ended up in a tie for second place in the Massachusetts Squash Racquets Association, higher than ever before...
...Ever since the $2 raise granted November 24, 1937, the dining-hall system has been on an unsound financial footing, and the continued existence of the Temporary Student Employment Plan is in serious danger as a result...