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...could frighten an inexperienced freshman more than old Jess with his swearing like a trooper, even at Miss Dillon. He could also point out to them that only two freshmen crews have ever won the big race, in 1947 and last year...
Crew started even long before Jess. Founder Henry Durant felt it was "Attractive and beneficial to the girls' health." But the first crews' chief function, other than mastering the elementary principles of rowing, lay in entertaining distinguished visitors. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow once took a spin on Lake Waban; it is said he never came back to Wellesley...
Romeo and Juliet (by William Shakespeare; a Dwight Deere Wiman production) seems Jess a play, to the world at large, than a great romantic legend. To the theater, it seems less a play than a part. No one produces it out of enthusiasm for its story alone. No one goes to see it because the Romeo is good, or stays home because he isn't. Everything centers on its not quite 14-year-old heroine; for lady stars, Juliet is a final goal and often a graveyard. There is a double hazard: the part demands the maturest art, must...
...find out why, Jess Larson, head of the General Services Administration, who has charge of stockpile contracts, was called in. Said Larson: he cut back Reynolds' expansion and the total expansion (to 446,000 tons) because the Pentagon's estimated needs did not justify them...
...went on, through One O'Clock Jump, Dixieland One-Step, I'm Comin' Virginia, Shine, Big John's Special. A roar went up after Trumpeter Harry James's first solo. There were screams after Benny's first liquid clarinet work, and Pianist Jess Stacy's five choruses in Sing, Sing, Sing. For the last half-hour, Drummer Gene Krupa, openmouthed and gibbering, never stopped the beat...