Word: new
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Under discussion after the officers were selected was the Corporation's recent decision barring the use of the Coolidge fund for the Debating Council's expenses. That decision has obliged the Council to find new sources of income for the 1940 season, or shut up shop...
...new names were added to the list yesterday when it was announced that the Czech Consul, Mr. Hane, and Samuel Rea, who works under Gallup in the American Institute of Public Opinion and has recently returned from the continent, would participate in the section dealing with propaganda and the war in Europe...
Listen to Gene Krupa's new record of "Hodge-Podge" and you'll hear not only "relaxed" swing, but soles of a sort that are going to make Gene's band one of the top white bands before the year is over. It's easy-flowing, the rhythm "takes it time." As a result, the soles can be slow, and well phrased. It's not easy--it took Gene's bunch this long to learn...
...found by pounding ahead in four-four drive. Just the opposite results. And if your are going to be successful, you must have a band that plays in the "same hag"; in other words, plays as a unit the same amount behind the beat. That's why all new bands, bands of all-stars, bands mixing two beat and four beat men are bad. You can't have a mixture of ideas about the "proper lag" and get the swing. For unity, a really good swing band must make a football team look like the Tower of Babel...
Skyscrapers, subways, slums and slicks, seven million people from the Bronx to Coney, that's the phenomenon people call New York City. It's a world within a nation, a monster cosmopolitanism which, like most great things, defies definition. Vinton Freedley, Jr. has written, and the Dramatic Club has produced a play about New York. They have not tried to define it, but they have, within the limits of stagecraft, tried to reproduce some of its many facets. To realize the ambitions ideal they set up for themselves, the Dramatic Club has used a cast of more than...