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Borgatti listed the factors favoring such a trip; South America, much infiltrated by German marching music, is thought, to be a good possible market for football songs; the trip would probably create a new demand on Harvard band albums; and such a jaunt would arouse greater enthusiasm among band members and thus increase its backing...
...bridesmaid, never a bride," Coach Mikkola's current Varsity harrier squad will try to win one this afternoon when it races Dartmouth over the 4 1/4 mile Franklin Park Course. The Varsity meet, starting at 3:45 o'clock, will be preceded by a 3 1/4 mile Freshman jaunt...
...oppressive heat of Saturday continued on through yesterday afternoon. It may prove valuable conditioning for the forthcoming jaunt across the Mason-Dixon line...
...Jake Goeltz nicked the dollar slot machines for two jackpots. He walked out of there with $308. Then in Hollywood there was a tour out to see the movie stars' homes, and a big free-drink party by the Los Angeles Teamsters' Joint Council, and a nightclub jaunt to Earl Carroll's place, and the Biltmore Bowl. Some of the boys had to borrow coats and ties from the waiters before they'd let them in to have a look at the goings-on in Earl Carroll...
...Blond, hefty (225 lbs.) John Gunther has developed a rapid-transit system for writing books. His field trips for Inside Asia (1939) took a mere eleven months, for Inside Latin America (1941) only five. Now he has explored the 48 states on a jaunt lasting slightly more than a year. He has written a lot of letters (including one to every governor), interviewed many, and pumped a lot of local newsmen, some of whom are very helpful in the Gunther System, and apt to be highly flattered by such attention from one of journalism's most renowned panjandrums...