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...melody with modernism by his work on the Basic records: Royal Garden, Bugle, and Sugar Blues made in 1944. His rival among the more comprehensible instrumentalists will be Rex Stewart, Ellington's former solo cornetist who achieves remarkable tonal effect with the valves of his horn pushed down just half-way. The other steadying influence will be the corpse who walks like a man, Dave Tough. This made over two beat artist has probably played in more widely divergent groups than any two other jazzmen, having run the gamut between Condon and Spivak...
...Half-way or lower down a long priority list, the average University resident student seeking a precious telephone, may have to wait as long as three additional months before his number comes up. That is the latest word on a constantly changing situation, according to B. A. Dwyer, Manager of the Cambridge Branch Office of the New England Telephone and Telegraph Company...
Three Leagues have tried to meet the menace half-way. The Big Ten allows no outright purchase of talent; neither does it allow part-time "jobs". But there is nothing short of a Commissar who can stop interested alumni from assuring Glutz, the promising blocking-back, that coffee, cakes and liniment will be no problem at the U. The Pacific Coast Conference, under minor Czar Warren Atherton, has a stringent rule forbidding even such Alumni dalliance with high-school seniors. While the spirit of the coast authorities is willing, the flesh is relatvely weak; enforcement of this laudable stand lacks...
...sixth, or Varsity class, Pratt and Mark Tuttle, former captain of track and cross country teams, but now a graduate student, took the lead and stuck close together until well past the half-way mark at which time Pratt gained a slight lead and finally beat Tuttle by 8 seconds...
...that full confidence in dealings with Russia is necessary," he said. "But Russia has done nothing to give us this confidence. We do not have the facts upon which to base a sound judgment. If there is to be complete trust in politics, the Russians must come at least half-way. They must show that they are ready to trust us also...