Word: good
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Baketball, for example, has Paul Busse, a six-footer who learned the game at Newark Academy, ready to step in and replace Giles Scofield, Princeton's captain and high scorer in 1939. In fact Busse, a good hall handler, a fine shot and a digger for forty minutes, already has won for himself the pivot sport, making him the only Sophomore on the starting five that has been used to date...
...swimming team will find it harder to make replacements, but it is ready for a good try at it, says Howin Stepp, the coach. The Tigers lost Dick Hough, their record-holding breast stroker, but Ned Parke, who competed in the freestyle events last year--and did very well at them, too--may be rushed into the breach. He originally was a breast stroker, holder of the national interscholastic title at 100 yards while at Lawrenceville. But there are also two Sophomores ready for this event-Bill price and Stewart Pach...
...Stiff" and "relaxed" are two ways of playing Swing. One is termed bad, the other good. What are the two styles, who plays them and why is one better than the other...
...must be understood that the object of good swing is the creation of musical ideas ad lib that have continuity, simplicity, and sincerity (need we add, originality). Any band style of playing that aids this is therefore good; any that hinders it is bad. In the opinion of most musicians, the "stiff" or "power-house" style hinders the above, and is bad whereas the "relaxed" or "colored lag" style is the very essence of that thing swing...
...What the good relaxed band does it just the opposite of the stiff band. They depend on the ear of the listener to hold the idea of a steady beat and then they begin go play behind it. This is the famous "colored lag," that which takes years to develop, and which most white bands never...