Word: gene
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...frequent charge against the Congress has been that an articulate and fast-stepping Communist minority has determined A. Y. C. policies, kept them lashed to the Communist Party line. One grown-up who is convinced that A. Y. C. is dominated by the Communists is ex-Heavyweight Champion Gene Tunney. In the attempt to get a "pro-American" bloc into the Congress, Mr. Tunney backed young Promotion Man Murray Plavner, who thought he could...
Jitterbugs and night owls twiddled their dials, got, instead of their accustomed Gene Krupa, Eddy Duchin, Tommy Dorsey, et al., a new crop of studio musicians-trios, quartets, unknown bands, variety shows. No one liked this much, but at week's end no one had moved to break the deadlock...
...Brown's School Days (R. K. O.). When classic-loving, copyright-hating Producer Gene Towne, fresh from Swiss Family Robinson, proceeded to lay his busy hands on Thomas Hughes's 83-year-old celebration of Rugby and British public-school life, across the Atlantic to Hollywood came a cold shudder. "Presumption," snorted Rugby's head, Mr. Hugh Lyon, anticipating something worse than Robert Taylor's A Yank at Oxford. Mr. Lyon was not placated by Producer Towne's choice of a British director, Robert Stevenson, and of the impeccable Sir Cedric Hardwicke to play...
Brigadier Burtenshaw's solos are more spectacular than Jazzdrummer Gene Krupa's. With his whole band massed behind him, the Brigadier twirls his drumsticks faster & faster, whirls them over his head, down to his ankles throughout the number. He can catch his sticks at any beat he wants, change pace with offbeat effects, shade his tone from a crash to a whisper...
Position by position, the Crimson roster seems to be stronger than it was at this stage a year ago. Loren MacKinney and Gene Lovett, backed by Junior Joe Koufman and Sophomores Don Forte, Bill Barnes, and John Morgan should provide Dick Harlow with the best end play he has had at Harvard. Vern Miller is the only tackle holdover, and converted guard Don Lowry, Pete Elser, and Tom Gardiner are next in line, Bob Fisher and Tom Rogstad are a couple of Sophomores who may win consideration before the year is out, but right now Harvard looks woefully weak...