Word: hackett
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most famous jazz spot in pre-war Boston was the old Theatrical Club, corner of Warrenton and Tremont, where beginning in 1937 after-hour highballs were served to the accompaniment of Bobby Hackett's band. The "real" jazz school might claim that an instrumentation of two tenors, even though abetted by Brad Gowns' slide trombone and Hackett's horn, wasn't conducive to good music--but, then, the liquor wasn't too good, either...
Back from the wars to help Ohio State defend its Big Ten title came Paul Sar-ringhaus, the 200-lb. passing and plunging ace of '42. With All-America Guard Bill Hackett recovered from a summer auto accident, Ohio State was the Big Ten team to beat...
From 50 annual lists published by the Bookman, by Books of the Month (now Bowker Book Guides), and by her own Publishers' Weekly, Associate Editor Alice Payne Hackett has compiled a record of U.S. literary taste from 1895 to the present. Titles like Charles Major's When Knighthood Was in Flower. (1899), John Fox Jr.'s The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1908), Michael Arlen's The Green Hat (1925) awake as many memories as old tunes. Winston Churchill was a name on everybody's lips in the first years of the century. It meant...
Announced recently by the House committees of Lowell and Adams were the elections of seven men, who will take office with the opening of the spring term. From a field of 26 nominees, the Bellboys picked George I. Bell '48, Stephen Fischer-Galati '45, Robert Hackett '48, Donor Lion '45, and Chester Pierce '48; while on the Gold Coast, Thomas A. Fennell, Jr. '48, and Richard T. Gill '48, were chosen from a list of eight...
From Army lecture platform to Standout Hall is a strange transition, but Lt. Hackett is taking it in stride, mixing with all, making numerous friends, and gradually fitting himself into the regular pattern of life. Commenting on this life he says seriously that he is "very well satisfied here at Harvard" and "more than pleased with the way in which I have been received...