Word: guitars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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However, since Navy equipment does not provide for the necessities of a jazz band, they would be "very grateful" to any student who would be willing to lend them any of the following essentials: two trumpets, trombone, guitar, tenor sax, set of drums. These should be left at A-31 Massachusetts Hall before 13 o'clock, they say, admitting that even professionals must practice...
Some other musicians, who participated in the May contest, will be swinging away tonight, however. Among them are Bud Wentworth '44, on the trombone, Ed Hunt '42, on the trumpet and guitar, George Springer '42, playing the trumpet and Stu Grover '45, backing up on the drums...
...Chicago's busy North State Street, undisturbed by the groaning and rumbling of a neighboring trolley line. One of his favorite mediums is gouache, a mixture of opaque colors with gum arable and water, which gives his paintings a subdued, somewhat chalky finish. He likes to play the guitar in solitude and speculate quietly about what he calls "the wonderful mysteriousness of life...
...shows each week he mugged, sang, cavorted in the smash hit This Is The Army (TIME, July 13). Each morning he drilled with the rest of the cast on a vacant lot in Manhattan. Two mornings a week (Sundays 8:45 a.m., Thursdays 9:30 a.m. E.W.T.) his strumming guitar and his warm tenor voice plugged the Army show over CBS. He took the daily Jive stint happily in stride...
Private Ives could remember other, lazier days. A onetime Eastern Illinois State Teachers College footballer, burly Burl Ives bummed around the U.S. with his guitar, collecting folk songs and singing them to folks. In Manhattan he met Songsleuth Sigmund Spaeth, who sent him to NBC. Ambling amiably up to a mike, he started off with Robin He Married a Wife from the West. But NBC listeners that warm June day in 1940 heard no more than the opening line. "Special bulletin," the announcer broke in, "France has capitulated...