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Among cheerleaders who were born too soon to get their crossed megaphones: Band Leader Kay Kyser, whose North Carolina cheerios of 1927 set an alltime high note in Southern cheerleading...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: All-America | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

...McLoughlin, Bob Jay (last year's Freshman captain) and Kay Rogers took eighth, ninth, and tenth places. Jim Lightbody, quarter-miler, who will captain this year's, track team, registered in twelfth place...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Harriers Smear Holy Cross, Taking Seven Out of First Ten Spots | 10/21/1939 | See Source »

...Gold. Horace Heidt's kampuskut orchestra has been rah-rahing since 1923, but has had to play frequent second fiddle to such fraternity-row favorites as Fred Waring, Kay Kyser. But this season, sponsored by Turns, a carminative, Horace Heidt's Musical Knights went out in front with a burp. During Turns' Tuesday night half hour, a wheel of fortune is ceremoniously spun several times, eventually coming to rest on a telephone number somewhere in the U. S. A call is put in for the unnamed subscriber. The band plays on, but when the phone is answered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Rainbow's End | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

...looking for records, the Square is well stocked with stores which despite a surplus of Kay Kayser, manage to keep a pretty satisfying stock on hand. Well-founded rumor has it that an attempt is being made to found a real swing club at Harvard with record concerts and demonstrations by some of the country's best. And then the House Committees always slip up occasionally and get a good band for one of the House dances...

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: Swing | 9/30/1939 | See Source »

...Ethel Vance" is a pseudonym for someone whom the publishers say they have good reason not to name. The book might be the product of an impossible collaboration by Kay Boyle, Christopher Isherwood, Dorothy Sayers, Franz Kafka and Alfred Hitchcock. Its atmospheric detail and steadily elaborated suspense are better than most Hitchcock. Book-of-the-Month Clubbers, who get Escape for October, will not willingly lay it down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Adventures in Nazilcmd | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

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