Word: indianas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Though both George A.'s were seated close to 0. P. Van Sweringen at the auction, they were strange faces to Manhattan newsmen. Spare, bald-pated George Alexander Ball is a power in Indiana politics, a Republican National Committeeman, a close friend of onetime Senator James Watson and divides the honor of being the First Citizen of Muncie. Ind. with his elder brother Frank. The only two survivors of the original five Ball brothers, they make the Ball fruit-jar known to all housewives. They both live in show places on the banks of the White River in Muncie...
...Practically all Indiana judgeships are elective jobs. Playing politics from the bench is a highly-developed Hoosier art. Until recently no law-school degree has been necessary for admission to the bar, and even to become a Supreme Court Justice in Indiana one needed only two affidavits of good character and a requisite number of votes...
WHEN Carmichael finished Indiana in 1926, he had a law degree and a reputation for really making the Jordah River Campus Reviews something. He sadly told his orchestra boys that from now on he was a lawyer. A year later he came back from a Florida law office, reorganized the orchestra, and began to use a melody called Stardust as his signature song. That song was published; and Hoagy left the orchestra to spend all of his time working out the tunes that troubled his sad soul. You know them: Georgia on My Mind, One Morning in May, Moon Country...
...degree all the others seemed to start out to get before joining an orchestra and leaving--and Hoagy had an orchestra, too. This is a matter of pride to Kappa Sigma, the fraternity Carmichael joined soon after he entered the University of Indian in 1920. There, in the famous Indiana Book Nook, Hoagy used to make his classmates weep as he played the original Old Rocking Chair, so sad a composition that his publishers made him tone its tragic lyrics down...
...crop of ends is unusually large this year, and among them is the only Conant Prize Scholar of the squad, Ralph Murphy, who hails from New Albany, Indiana. Other outstanding men are Winthrop Jameson, who prop- ped at Exeter, and Tony Staruski, a former star at Hyde Park High...