Word: jam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dave Baum arranged and led a musical show with several freshman performers--a folk balladeer and a popular singer--plus Dickie Lee Hebert, Miss Radcliffe '56, who played the piano. The jam session was held in the Common Room of the Union Monday evening...
...Eisenhower Administration had got into and out of its first jam. The lesson: Washington had a lot to teach Detroit about how to handle appearances, just as Detroit assuredly had a lot to teach Washington about the realities under the appearances...
...Sleep Can Wait. Last June he walked into the Haig stony-broke. Somebody lent him a horn, and he began sitting in on jam sessions. Within a month he was leading the sessions and drawing customers. Pacific Jazz Records recorded an LP of the quartet playing a few jazz standards and some of Gerry's own compositions, e.g., Soft Shoe, Nights at the Turntable. The Haig put Gerry in headline position at $200 a week...
Although disappointed, William B. Van Lenner, curator of the Theater Collection in Houghton Library, refuses to believe that the sale was part of a publicity stunt. "She was in a jam and this was the only way out," he said...
...dream. With 20 passengers in his double-decker bus, Albert was just starting across the draw in London's Tower Bridge, as he had hundreds of times before. Suddenly, he said later, "it seemed as though the roadway in front of me was falling away." Albert started to jam on his brakes. Then he changed his mind...