Word: jumbos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Polka for Jumbo. Yet all his life Igor Stravinsky has written music, sometimes great music, to order-for people who would hire him on his terms. The Firebird, Petrouchka and The Rite of Spring, Stravinsky's best ballet scores, were commissioned. He has composed a polka for elephants for the Ringling Brothers, a Scherzo á la Russe for Paul Whiteman, Ballet Scenes for Billy Rose, an Ebony Concerto for Woody Herman and his jazzband. Scherzo á la Russe was written to fit one side of a Whiteman record (says Stravinsky: "He played it very badly. He has a very...
...winners struck for four in the first and six in the second. From then on the game was never in doubt as Langdon Clay held the home team to live earned runs. Harvard capitalized on ten hits and numerous Jumbo errors. Bucky Harrison, with a homer and a triple, and Web Durant, who also homered, found Tufts' slow pitching to their liking and led the team at the plate...
...rumored that an ambitious crew of extroverts has hired one of Cambridge's trolley-cars for a jumbo predance party on the move. Others, less original, are poring over Massachusetts fire laws to see if beach party bonfires are legal...
Tuft's All-American Ed Sigler lived up to his press clippings by scoring two of the Jumbo scores and assisting in a third. But the rest of the Medford team looked merely mediocre...
...bolstered by a horde of brilliant lacrosse-playing V-12ers, Tufts swept through Harvard and everyone else in the New England League to win the title. But the V-12 men have long departed from Medford, so the Varsity lacrosse team will play only a moderately good Jumbo squad at four o'clock this afternoon on the Business School Field...