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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...technique that rivals Krupa's in its crystal clarity, it seems to me after hearing him not only with Bradley but with the Jimmy Dorsey band that his ideas are more original and more strikingly Illustrated than those Jungle Gene." Plus the fact that McKinley is somebody's gift to a brass section. While other drummers are pounding away at just keeping good steady time, McKinley is backing the brass on every lick they play and thus adding immeasureably to the lift of the hand...

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: Swing | 5/22/1940 | See Source »

...Angeles, Dr. S. M. Seidlin, New York endocrinologist, defined "oomph": a gift of nature, the result of a finely adjusted endocrine system...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 13, 1940 | 5/13/1940 | See Source »

...Portrait of Professor Julian L. Coolidge, Master of Lowell House, was presented to the University last night in a ceremony following the regular High table of the House. Making the presentation was Elliot Perkins, who will succeed Professor Coolidge, while President Conant accepted the gift for the University...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HOUSE DINNER FOR COOLIDGE | 5/7/1940 | See Source »

...Alumni Fund in America. More than 22,000 individual alumni, two-thirds of the graduates of the college, have contributed to it a sum of over $1,800,000. For classes less than 25 years out of college a special stipulation of crediting compound interest toward the $100,000 gift for the twenty fifth reunion has been provided...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mercer Named Agent Of the Harvard Fund | 5/7/1940 | See Source »

...have proved that gift paint and Crimson during make an invincible combination. Heil Conant," a Harvard telephone dispatch stated...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LATE DISPATCH: BLITZKRIEG REPORTED IN CANTABRIDGIA | 5/6/1940 | See Source »

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