Word: gene
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...better jazz in a small combination. Take, for instance, the way the band plays on ordinary pop tune. They open it with a light, bouncing piano chorus, and then Fats gives a vocal burlesque of the phoney Broadway sentiment voiced in the lyrics. After everybody digs a bit more, Gene Cedric (who, incidentally, is probably the most unappreciated jazz musician alive), slips in a tenor ride passage and Herman Autrey a trumpet. Finally, Fats takes the release, and by the time everybody else comes in for a terrific finish on the last eight bars, the tune is properly murdered...
Victories over Dartmouth by 8 to 1 and Williams by 9 to 0, an improved first string, and a substantial reserve strength bolster the expectations of the racquet-wielders from Cambridge. The nine men who are wearing the Crimson for the weekend's battles are southpaw Gene Nickerson, Sonny Lyell, Galen Felt Stretch Baker (six feet seven in his stocking feet). Captain Don Marvin, Decker Orr, Sandy Parker, Dud Palmer, and Doug Cochrane...
Those nominated, of whom as many will be sent as can be financed include: Roy Atherton, David Bodansky, Robert Byrnes, Stanley Goldberg, Joseph Grandine, Thomas Hall, William Kyod, Gene Nellhaus, Louis Pollak, Robert Solow, William Suckle, and Charles Young...
Annoyed by radio's Oberon-&-Titania quarrel was many a big-league radio showman who agreed with the description of B. M. I. as "a pain in the ASCAP." ASCAP's President Gene Buck complacently permitted the BMIred networks to broadcast such patriotic ballads as Stars and Stripes Forever, Anchors Aweigh and God Bless America at the President's inauguration. Meanwhile Arthur Murray introduced B. M. I. tunes in his dancing schools, on the theory that his customers would have to learn them if they wanted to practice by radio at home. Among the sillier consequences...
...Foreign Wars track meet; curtain raiser of the 1941 indoor U. S. track season; in 4 min., 14.4 sec.; before a crowd of 5,000; at the Boston Garden. Munski, winner of last fortnight's outdoor Sugar Bowl Mile at New Orleans, outran among others Chuck Fenske and Gene Venzke, last year's headliners. Twice last winter Fenske ran a mile...