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...there to sing, of course, though he played a vigorous rhythm guitar, ceding the fancy solos to Scotty Moore. But on one 1957 session, when slap-bassist Bill Black walked out in frustration after being unable to master the rumbling electric-bass intro for the Leiber-Stoller "Baby, I Don't Care," Elvis picked up the instrument and played the line perfectly. He would also push for extra takes to get a song right. He insisted on 31 stabs at "Hound Dog," then listened pensively to the playbacks and said of the final take, "This...
...referenced the comments of legendary musician and activist Harry Belafonte, who, in a recent public appearance, equated Powell’s political position with that of a slave in the house of his master...
After 12 years at the helm of Currier House, Master William A. Graham and Co-Master Barbara S. Graham will step down at the end of the academic year, they announced to House residents in an e-mail yesterday...
Graham, whose 12 years in Currier make him the longest-serving master in a single House among current masters, said he had been thinking about departing since he assumed the deanship, but he and his wife had told Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis ’68 they would try staying on. But yesterday Graham said the deanship’s demands on his time were simply too great...
Graham’s announcement comes just months after Winthrop House Master Paul D. Hanson announced this would be his last year as master, leaving Lewis without his two most senior masters next fall.“I understand [the Grahams’] decision to step down...but I will miss them very much,” Lewis wrote in an e-mail. “They have been infinitely kind, patient and understanding—both with students and with deans...