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Practices among the active committees vary. Some of them, like Minneapolis, and, during the last twelve months, Dayton, are lagely one-man shows. The major high and prepschools in Minnesota are combed largely through the efforts of D. Donald Peddie '41 who has converted Minneapolis into a "Harvard town." Similarly, St. Louis and Baltimore are considered "Princeton towns," while Seattle and Portland are pretty well controlled by Yale alumni...
...Louis Blues (Blake Reynolds; MacGregor). Strictly for the curious: Reynolds gives a somewhat thick-textured, one-man performance of the old masterpiece on saxophones, clarinets, and rhythm instruments, brought together in a multiple-recording process. A similar trick is performed on Should I? by Geordie Hormel, who favors percussion instruments...
...time she left high school at 14, she had staged virtually a one-man performance of Charley's Aunt ("I played the lead, directed it, cast it, sold the tickets, printed the posters, and hauled furniture to the school for scenery and props"). In a Masonic musical revue, she put so much passion into an Apache dance that she threw one arm out of its socket. Jamestown citizens still remember her explosive personality with wonder: it took quite a while for the dust to settle in Jamestown when Lucille finally left-for Manhattan...
Without Harvard, Radio, Radcliffe's staff at present consists of 15 active members, and several more inactive ones. Membership is divided into announcers--who write shows and announce--and tech girls, who run controls. Actually, most members of Radio Radcliffe can do either more or less competently, and, indeed, often have to in the one-man shows of the reading-period orgies...
...reading period, Radio Radcliffe presents "orgies"; a week of music from 9 a.m. to 3 a.m., with a minimum of announcing. Orgies are done as one-man shows, except for the 10 p.m. to 3 a.m. shift, which is two man...