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...Dartmouth game, he prepared the first of his famous college medleys. The next week Anderson, pleased with the success of the medley, presented another for the Army game. He took a tune from Gershwin's "Of Thee I Sing," added some well-known melodies from Ivy League songs, and produced "Wintergreen for President." This number, the nearest thing to a Band theme song, is repeatedly requested by audiences...

Author: By Robert E. Smith, | Title: University Band Celebrates 40th Anniversary | 10/24/1959 | See Source »

Before the next Dartmouth-Harvard game the usually, happy-go-lucky, play-for-anybody Band plunged itself into controversy by announcing that it would not salute the Dartmouth team with the usual medley because of "the interruption to our medley last year." After word of this cold shoulder, adverse response from both Dartmouth and Harvard alumni was so great that the Band reversed its field and decided to play for the visitors...

Author: By Robert E. Smith, | Title: University Band Celebrates 40th Anniversary | 10/24/1959 | See Source »

Anderson will conduct his own Second Dartmouth Medley and his arrangement of Wintergreen for President...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Leroy Anderson Will Lead Reunion Band In Soldiers Field | 10/16/1959 | See Source »

...curl the toes of every properly nourished female in the house. He works with few props-a top hat and a straw hat, a cane and an umbrella-but his simplest movements are vibrant with innuendo. Singing entirely in French, he baited his audiences last week into a wonderful medley of moods. In Ma Môme, Ma P'tite Môme he was every woman's protective lover, as his shoulder and arms curved in a possessive embrace; in the upbeat La Marie-Vison, about the perils of coveting a mink coat ("There must be other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BROADWAY: Troubadour from France | 10/5/1959 | See Source »

...finished the job of turning Chicago's Pan-American Games into a one-girl swim. In all, Chris carried off five gold medals: she won the 100, 200 and 400 meters, was a member of the winning team in the 400-meter freestyle relay and the 400-meter medley. What was more, all of the times were Pan-American records...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: One-Girl Swim | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

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