Word: kirks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Quickest, simplest, safest method of amputation on the battlefield, said Colonel Norman Thomas Kirk of the U.S. Army, is the circular or "flapless guillotine" operation. "The word 'guillotine,'" said Colonel Kirk, "is a misnomer. The circular guillotine amputation is not a 'chop' operation." It consists of cutting around the skin of the limb, waiting a moment for it to draw back, then cutting around the connective tissue, waiting again for withdrawal, cutting through the muscles circularly, and finally sawing the bone. The old practice of covering the bone with flaps of skin has been abandoned...
...Dean Donham retires and an era comes to an end. He will carry on as George F. Baker Professor of Administration. (The late George F. Baker donated $5,000,000 to build the School.) Dean Donham's successor is Idaho-born, 46-year-old Donald Kirk David, a graduate of the School (1919) and an old Donham disciple. Donham's first assistant, after 1927 he became a power in retail foods, first with Royal Baking Powder, then as first president of Chase & Sanborn, finally as a director of Standard Brands. Last February he went back to the Business...
...excitement of the occasion don't forget the local boys who made good in front of the home crowd that night. There were, of course, the two winners, Burgstaller and Dunn, who continued their brilliant rivalry on the tenor sax later in the week when Andy Kirk came to town, but there were some others whom I'd like to mention here who played more than one fine chorus that night. The ones I have in mind particularly are George Springer, whose trumpet led the rideout finals with much gusto, and who played some nice obligato during Rushing's blues...
Most of the University's leading swing soloists will complete this evening at 9 o'clock in the Winthrop House Junior Common Room for the title of Harvard Jazz Champ and for the chance to play an entire set with Andy Kirk's band at Dunster House on Friday...
...somewhat lesser interest is Georgie Auld's presence at the Jubilee. This band is rather new, and while it may not be as well integrated as Kirk's auld's tenor sax solos have been good listening and should make up most of the difference. It played here some weeks ago, however, and I heard it kindly spoken of at the time. Then there is Johnnie "Scat" Davis at Lowell House, who suffers, at least in this column, from competition with Kirk the same night. You, too have probably sat through a collegiate movie in which his obstreperous jive...