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...Band constantly increased its size each year until there were about 80 men marching in 1927. Even then, improvisation was necessary. For instance, at one game violins had to be borrowed to play the missing clarinet parts in the football songs. Two of the members that year were Leroy Anderson '29, renowned composer, and Malcolm Holmes '28. From 1942 until his untimely death in 1953, Mal Holmes was the Band's director and the prime mover in its rise to the top among college bands. The spirit and musical competence that he instilled into the Band remains today...
...Leroy Anderson '29 will conduct one of the largest musical units ever to play at Soldiers Field when the Band holds its 40th reunion on Dartmouth Weekend...
Despite the continuance of polio, Surgeon General Leroy E. Burney of the PHS said last week that the Salk killed-virus vaccine has proved 90% effective. The trouble is that an estimated 40 million Americans in the susceptible undergo age group have not taken the shots...
Fearful that the change might make less work for stereotypers, Leroy J. Selby, president of St. Louis Stereotypers Union No. 8, objected: "We have had these working conditions for over 35 years, and the publisher is trying to take them away." The walkout of his tiny local threw 3,000 out of work and left St. Louis without a daily newspaper...
...familiarized themselves with the hazards of plain water, which they will not find on any lunar expedition but might encounter on their return to earth. The space pioneers, learning how to cope with an impromptu dunking in underwater-survival school at a Navy base in Norfolk: Air Force Captain Leroy G. Cooper Jr., 32, Navy Lieut. Commander Walter M. Schirra Jr., 36, Navy Lieut. Malcolm S. Carpenter, 33, Navy Lieut. Commander Alan B. Shepard Jr., 35, Air Force Captain Donald K. Slayton, 35, Marine Lieut. Colonel John H. Glenn Jr., 37, Air Force Captain Virgil I. Grissom...