Word: goodmans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...With a Horn" starring Burgess Meredith. Eddie Condon and various other top-ranking men were actually signed up, but after a few weeks the pristine enthusiasm over the idea faded and no more was heard of the matter. But apart from the brief appearance of Louis Armstrong and Benny Goodman in a minor extravaganza entitled "Swingin' the Dream," which caught at best a fleeting glimpse of Broadway, jazz and its exponents have not since been given a chance to ennoble the buskin'd stage...
...just over six years since Benny Goodman brought a clarinet and thirteen musicians into a stodgy Chicago hotel to open a brief engagement wangled for him by an astute manager. Eight months later he was still packing them in on the same spot, "The Music Goes 'Round" was already out of the public ear for good, and the diluted jazz called swing was just beginning a successful job of artificial respiration on a music business which was on the verge of going down for the third time in the high seas of the depression...
After dinner, three Harvard students, Norman Knowlton '42, Cliff Goodman '42, and Dave Hart '43 escorted the marines to Wellesley, where dates had been arranged for them. When asked the stock question if they preferred Wellesley to Radcliffe, Jones replied naively, "I'll tell you when we get back...
...Marias, Richard F. McCarthy, J. Raymond Moore, Jr., Richard M. Meechem, Jewett F. Neiley, Jr., George N. Nackley, Thomas R. Noonan, Jr., George D. O'Day, Paul F. Perkins, Jr., Don Rausch, Gershon Ross, Robert T.P. Storer, Joe Sharlett, William H. Thomas, Alexander Ullrich, John W. Williams and Mitchell Goodman...
...second day Vines shot 78 and qualified for match play. Trailed by a gallery nearly as large as the one that followed home-town Hero Goodman, Vines got jittery, lost his first match, 1 up on the 19th hole, to a Tulsan named Ted Gwin. For a comparative beginner, Vines was in good company. Put out in the same round were Goodman, Chapman, Yates, Argentine Open Champion Mario Gonzales and nearly every other name player except Bud Ward and Ray Billows (twice runner...