Word: jam
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hour and a quarter Wednesday evening, the Winthrop Junior Common room was the scene of a spirited jam session and swing contest attended by close to 500 people, and at the end of the contest Freshman Joe Pamelia, tenor saxophone and clarinet player, was chosen Harvard's outstanding swingster...
...Winthrop Junior Common Room will be the scene of the second big-time jam session held at Harvard in the last four months when Pee Wee Russell, famous hot clarinetist, Bill Davison, outstanding cornetist, and some other members of Davison's band which is now playing in Boston, come out to play from 8 to 9 o'clock tonight in a program which has been arranged and will be broadcast by the Crimson Network...
While the jam session will take up the first half of the program, a swing contest, to determine Harvard's leading swingster, will occupy the second half. The Network held a similar program last May in which Count Basie and his blues singer, Jimmy Rushing, were featured. At this time two tenor sax men, Joe Dunn and Gene Burgstaller, were crowned University swing champs, but both of them have left school...
...have time enough to hear Davison's band at the Ken, you can judge for yourself next Wednesday night at Winthrop House, or over the Crimson Network. A jam session will be held, featuring instrumentalists around the College. Bill Davison has graciously consented to bring part of his band and play for the occasion...
...World War I, Dr. Weizmann's skill got Britain out of a worse jam than the U.S. rubber shortage. Britain was desperate for acetone, needed to make explosives. It had to be distilled from wood, and there were hardly enough trees in the world to supply the demand. Dr. Weizmann found a way to make synthetic acetone, solved the shortage overnight, in return won the British promise of a homeland for Jews in Palestine...