Word: meadowbrook
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...band opened last January right after New Year's at the band-building Meadowbrook in New Jersey. Those first weeks, even though Al already had a good name, one would have thought to be slim pickings because of the time of year. Yet from the first day, Donahue had 'em slinging tables from the chandeliers. His band was and is a tremendous success...
...lusty group of pretenders was after it. Chief among them - was a youngster named Artie Shaw. Last March, while King Goodman and Pretender Shaw fought a battle of music in Newark, N. J. (TIME, March 6), a brand-new band was drawing some discriminating New Jersey jitterbugs to the Meadowbrook Club in neighboring Cedar Grove. Leading it was Ben Pollack's old trombonist, Glenn Miller...
...Hour conferred swing's Pulitzer Prize on Miller by signing him up to take Paul Whiteman's place, beginning Dec. 27. Last week Trombonist Miller, now undisputed King of Swing, went back to play a week's engagement, just for old times' sake, at the Meadowbrook Club...
...room shack on the Meadowbrook Farm near Merced, Calif., Mrs. Ola Harwell, 26, was reading the Bible to her husband Woodrow, itinerant cotton picker, and her two small sons: "Wherefore if thy hand or thy foot offend thee," read Mrs. Harwell from the Book of Matthew, "cut them off, and cast them from thee. . . ." "Amen," said her family. She shut the Bible with a snap. "My right eye and my left hand have sinned," she said. She took a pair of scissors, went to the woodshed, stabbed at her right eyeball till she gouged it out. She took a heavy...
...Skiddy von Stade, who was captain of his Freshman team two years ago and who has been on the Varsity all the time as an upperclassman, will hold down the No. 2 berth. He comes from St. Paul's and has played in the summers in the Meadowbrook tournaments on Long Island. Townie Winmill captain the team and plays back...