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...Noah," "The Song of Peace," and "Anchors Aweigh," and a solo of "People Will Think We're in Love," by S.O. Pete Francati. O'Neill of the Welfare and Recreation Office was responsible for this initial success, but was aided by the originators of the band, Jimmy Oliver and Merv Lysing. Featured in the band were "Skins" Walthour, producer of cacophony, Paul Liden on the trumpet, and Melvin Otterson on the bass strings...
Walter Ollen, chairman of the affair, promises a skit by each platoon, good chow, plenty of suds, entertainment by Baker members of the NTS Swing Band and if Buzzie Buskirk, Chet Travelstead, Merv Lysing, Pete Francati, Frank Davis, and Jim Oliver give out the way they did in the Yard the other night... it will be a whopping success...
...readin' C.I. all the time? Take that fella who sits next to him "Slush" Buskirk. The armed forces don't have to take Tommy Dorsey if they want a real trombone player. Heck, no, we've got the ace right here in our own ball park. And what about Merv Lysing on the sax? Minnesota sure lost a good bet when he went to Harvard here. And the rhythm section only two pieces, but man, they are pulenty sufficient for anybody's dance floor. You really ought to drop around and hear that guy Gelnett from Company B play that...
...Professor Davis was especially charged with the geographical work, in which he was aided by Mr. Ellsworth Huntington, a member of the Graduate School last year. Professor Davis's route, to be described and illustrated in the lecture, lay eastward from the Caspian, across the plains of Turkestan, past Merv and Simarkand to the western ranges of the Tian Shan Mountains. The furthest point reached was Lake Issikul. There Mr. Huntington turned southward, going to Kashgar in Western China, and returning then to Turkestan, while Professor Davis went northward to Western Siberia, whence he returned by rail to Moscow...