Word: goodman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...skit about the White House was hammed. Another, about the home life of the Lunts, appeared to be about acrobats. A piece about the rich unionizing turned shrill. Throughout there were very knowing references to Bergdorf Goodman, Countess di Frasso, the Racquet & Tennis Club, Manhattan's champagne country. Best touch: switchboard wires curling and writhing like snakes. Best performer: Comedienne Imogene Coca...
Winning two bouts on default, the Leverett boxers won their match with Dunster yesterday, 3 1/2 to 1 1/2. Featured bout of the afternoon, was won by Landry, of Leverett, over Goodman...
...Times Square one cold day last week, a crowd of high-school students began to gather at dawn. When the doors opened several hours later, 3,000 rushed in and thousands more stood shivering on the sidewalks, waiting to hear the current musical idols of U. S. Youth-Benny Goodman and his swing band. The audience was jumping and shouting when New York University's Psychology Professor George Benjamin Vetter and the New York World-Telegram's crack Reporter Joseph Mitchell arrived to study the phenomenon. Reporter Mitchell...
...This Goodman is an interesting musician, isn't he?' said the professor, who was keeping time by stamping his feet on the floor. . . . 'Feed it out!' someone screamed as Gene Krupa, the drummer, began to knock the hell out of a set of cymbals. . . . 'Very interesting!' said the professor. 'The whole thing is explained in Allport's Social Psychology, chapters ten, eleven and twelve...
Those who could still take it made an historic evening of it by following part of the Goodman band up to Harlem to hear Count Basie's boys battle hunchbacked Chick Webb's men at the Savoy Ballroom...