Word: hofbrau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Older & Soberer. One thing had not returned-the sloppy drinking of the raccoon-coat and hip-flask era. The post-game crowds gathered nostalgically at their favorite spots-Mory's, the Old Heidelberg and Hofbrau in New Haven; the Yankee Doodle Taproom in Princeton; Metzger's and Floutz's in Ann Arbor. But they saw little student shenanigans. Many of Michigan's coeds broke dates with their steadies to go to strictly nonalcoholic parties with some of the 414 West Point cadets who came with the team. In Madison, where more than once in the past...
...face of this situation the efforts of the Lowell Freshmen purists are all the more commendable. They're well on their way toward obtaining the necessary angels and permission, and some Saturday soon they hope to have Art Hodes and his band, including Mezz Mesirow, down from the Lawrence Hofbrau, for an afternoon-long jam session. As Johann Cristoph Friedrich von Schiller used to say, "Freude...
...suggestion that this department investigate the Art Hodes bend at the Hofbrau in Lawrence, Mass, was undoubtedly a partial violation of the cardinal Army axiom. "Keep your mouth shut and don't volunteer." Hence the fate that so often overtakes the sealous committee member who dreams up an idea and gets elected to the job of seeing it through...
...piece jam band (the boys don't bother with the formality of written music) is that it includes two Negroes. Mixed bands are nothing new on records, or even in a few New York spots, but what impressed me was that Joe Wagon bach, proprietor of the Hofbrau, and the polyracial population of Lawrence, a town busily engaged in defense work even as Detroit, Beaumont, and Mobile, accept the band strictly on its merit, with no comment one way or another on the fact that it is a black-and-white band and will stay that way. And business, incidentally...
Butler who obviously follows the commendable pattern of Louis Armstrong's 1930-1931 Okeh recordings, draws more applause with his vocal and instrumental work during the floor show than any of the regular acts. (Oh, yes--the Hofbrau is a converted theatre and the floor show starts around...