Word: groups
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Seventh Fleet's 16 escort carriers-"baby flattops"-of Rear Admiral Thomas L. Sprague's Task Group 77.4 were operating off Samar without knowing that 1) Halsey had taken off after Ozawa or 2) Kurita had come through unguarded San Bernardino Strait and was only minutes over the horizon. A half-hour later, Kurita's shells began splashing around "Taffy 3," one of Task Group 77-4's three task units, under Rear Admiral Clifton Sprague...
After his first year as varsity football coach, John Yovicsin said, "The Band is closer to the team than any other group. The Band's enthusiasm has been great for the coaches as well as the players...
...foodstuffs, New Haven police arrested the whole Band for parading without a license and breach of peace. Also arrested was an off-duty policeman who enjoyed the music enough to step up and direct the Band in "Yo Ho!--the Good Ship Harvard." Bail was posted and the group was once again on its way to New York City. Of course the material trademark of the Harvard University Band is the huge bass drum the largest playable drum in the world--which is six feet in diameter and two feet in depth. The original drum, received in 1928, gave...
...Band also has many extra-curricular facets within it. Not only are are people with varied talents needed to run such an organization, but the Band fosters certain musical groups among its members. In addition to a chamber music group, to be started this fall, there is the Hungry Five, which plays German beer music "for parties, picnics, parades, weddings, wakes, grape-crushings, or keg-tappings...
...motley crew that plays at various girls colleges or wherever a beer keg is found. There actually was a Professor Schneider at Harvard, Band members will tell you, and Johann Wolfgang Schneider's Silver Cornet Band was "perpetrated in 1807." The present band is the descendant of that group...