Word: ganges
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Congratulations to the Department of Buildings and Brounds, which has at last found a perfect substitute for the rather untidy grass which has for so long disfigured Harvard Yard. Many of us were worried when we saw a gang of workmen spreading hot asphalt over what had been a lawn at the entrance to Seever Hall, but our anxieties have been set at rest now that the metalled surface has been painted green. If this green does not exactly blend into the surrounding landscape the fault must lie with the landscape, and I hope Buildings and Grounds will have...
...London Broil is the title given a fine series of moods (S'Wonderfid, April in Paris), in a style only as old as yesterday, by Johnny Dankworth's and Jack Parnell's big bands. There is also some happy, unspoiled Dixieland by Freddy Randall's gang (Carolina in the Morning). The Angel series bows to Paris in an album called Le Jazz Hot, with the late Guitarist Django Reinhardt. It then picks up a newer style in Jonah Wails. Jonah...
Jimmy Rushing Sings the Blues (Vanguard). Blues shouter for Count Basic's great band at the turn of the '40s. Rushing has a couple of men from the Basic gang in the band that backs him. He may not have the sweetest voice in the land, but his cries are uttered with a mastery of inflection that causes lumpy throats...
...designed to keep boys out of trouble. He liked to box, but he was small: 5 ft. 4 in., 126 Ibs. He hoped to be heavyweight champion of the world, and he wanted to be called Tarzan. Recently, he had been insulted by a member of the Golden Guineas gang; the murder was intended to avenge his honor...
Power of Positive Suggestion. In Los Angeles, arresting Printer Glenard E. Schmidt for masterminding a gang that tried to pass $350,000 in phony $20 bills, Secret Service men found in his auto a picture of a man industriously turning out $20 bills captioned: "Counterfeiters? No, but our presses can make money...