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...bloods, French, Spanish, Negro, Carib, Hindu, Chinese. Once a year, on the two days before Lent, Trinidad goes crazy with a carnival of rum-drinking, parades, musicmaking, mummery-blacks painted or masked as whites, whites as blacks. During carnival, Trinidad characters bearing such names as The Lion, Atilla the Hun, The Caresser, The Growler live high and merrily. They are the Calypsonians of the island, who compose, play and sing the Trinidad music known as Calypso.* Their songs, whose jerky rhythms and insinuating tunes suggest Africa and South America as well as the West Indies, tell of local and world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Calypso Boom | 8/29/1938 | See Source »

...publicize their products, and 2) they usually win from $3,000 to $6,000 in prize money during the tour. But most of all, the average pro knows that in this troupe the lowliest member may suddenly become the leading man at some performance, may win a few hun-dred dollars and get some press notices which will help him find a better job next year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Winter Troupe | 1/17/1938 | See Source »

Princeton is not different from other towns in this respect. The Hun School and the Student Tutoring Association have many clients, and several freelance instructors may be found up and down Nassau Street. The question is whether they are using their considerable talents against the interests of the University. There can be no doubt that they have done this upon occasion in the past, and perhaps they would do it again if they could. But times have changed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 1/20/1937 | See Source »

Headmaster The Hun School Princeton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 4, 1937 | 1/4/1937 | See Source »

TIME erred in implying that Princeton's rule against posting failures was directed against the Hun tutoring school, still maintains that Hun covers far more underclass than upperclass courses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 4, 1937 | 1/4/1937 | See Source »

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