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...father and his 18-year-old son-the father a scholar, the son a filial zealot-set out to record the folk songs of the U.S. When John Lomax had broken his son to the trail, young Alan went on alone. Between them the Lomaxes recorded 10,000 songs, many of which had never been heard more than five miles from the prisons, corrals or lumber camps where the Lomaxes found them...
This week the Library of Congress, a new entry in the record market, was selling, as fast as they could be processed, five unbreakable vinylite albums ($6 and $7 each) of Lomax-collected blues, "hollers," Appalachian ballads and sacred songs. As in the first six albums, released by the Library in February 1943, the voices had a native vitality that few nightclub singers could match, though some of the records had the noisy roughness of performances made far from recording studios...
Capt. Nelson T. Hoadley, USA, instructor of Military Science and Tactics-at the University, will leave sometime during the Christmas vacation for a new post at an Italian Prisoner of War camp. He will be succeeded by Capt. William L. Lomax, USA, who came here from the ASTP unit at Boston University...
Special guests who have been invited for Thursday night include Colonel Francis L. Purdon, USA, ASTP Commandant and professor of Military Science and Tactics; Major Howard B. Smith, Major Jerome L. Rosengard, Major Nelson Miles, Captain Cyrus S. Trescartin, Captain William L. Lomax, Captain Nelson T. Hoadley, and Captain Robert P. May, Commander of Company...
Captain Robert P. May assumes command of the new company, while Captain William L. Lomax, formerly commander of the new de-activated Company B, has been named adjutant to Colonel Francis Purdon, professor of Military Science and Tactics and Commandant of Army Training Schools at Harvard...