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...know I am asking a great deal of you but your position will warrant it. In deciding this, lay aside position and loyalty to your party and tell me from the fullness of your heart: What the deuce is a floy-floy...
...Floy Floy...
Authors of The Flat Foot Floogie with the Floy Floy, Slim Gaillard and Slam Stewart, do not know themselves what the words mean. Said Slim: "We were sort of talking a new language." The dance they had vaguely in mind was to be done flatfoot. "When we put the floy floy on it, that was extra business. You got the whole dance right there; you're swinging. See what I mean...
...swing concert in Randall's Island Stadium, 23,400 New York City jitterbugs trucked in the aisles, clambered out of the grandstand, shagged across the cinder track, yelled "Floy Floy!" "Jive it, cats!" "Get in the groove!" The five-hour-45-minute concert was played by 25 bands, among whose leaders were: Rudy Vallee, Duke Ellington, Hal Kemp, Gene Krupa, Vincent Lopez. Absent was Killer Diller Benny Goodman (see p. 22), who will hold his own swing fiesta in Madison Square Garden, June...
...many times amused his students with burlesque speeches on Founder's Day. Last week he donned his mask and buskins and played Theseus, father of Hippolytus who spurns the love of his stepmother. Phaedra. An actress (Phaedra's nurse) who had played before with Dr. MacCracken was Professor Margaret Floy Washburn, famed psychologist, one of the few female members of the National Academy of Sciences (TIME, May 11). Hippolytus was given in the original Greek, with full chorus and a new musical score, in Vassar's Experimental Theatre. The Greek department assisted; students who took part will be given degree...