Word: goodman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Among its sponsors: Bandleaders' Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Louis Armsrong Muggsy Spanier...
...just a vaudeyille show, however there are some bits well worth seeing. Katherine Cornell's three-minute stint is good, Yehudi Menuhin is excellent, Benny Goodman's vocalist makes with the eyes and torse in a delightful way, and so on down the line to Kay Kyser's nauseating gyrations...
Eight months ago, Goodman Quevedo went to work to stop youthful hoodlumism, started a kind of grown-up Boys Club for the zooters. He knew that they represented a basic American problem: the second generation. Their fathers and mothers were still Mexicans at heart. They themselves were Americans - resented and looked down on by other Americans. Jobless, misunderstood in their own homes and unwelcome outside them, they had fallen into the companionship of misery. They dressed alike, in the most exaggerated and outlandish costume they could afford: knee-length coats, peg-top trousers, yard-long watch chains, "ducktail" haircuts...
Good shots: Director Frank Borzage's dance-floor crowds moving to hot and sweet music by Benny Goodman, Kay Kyser, Guy Lombardo, Freddy Martin...
Frank Felbel Goodman (Government), Edward Forbes Greene (Chemistry), James Bullock Hathaway (Government), William Lewis Hewes, Jr. (Economics), Robert Kagan (Area of Social Science), Frederick Franz Maximilian Kempner (Literature), Lewis Miles Krohn (Economics), Neunert Frederick Lang (History), Howard Legum (Economics), Joseph Feder Ronald McCrindle (English), Arthur Gordon Maling (Economics), Merton Roland Nachman, Jr., (Government), David Chester Noyes, Jr. (Engineering Sciences), Howard Longyear Palmer (Area of Social Science...