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Most famous jazz spot in pre-war Boston was the old Theatrical Club, corner of Warrenton and Tremont, where beginning in 1937 after-hour highballs were served to the accompaniment of Bobby Hackett's band. The "real" jazz school might claim that an instrumentation of two tenors, even though abetted by Brad Gowns' slide trombone and Hackett's horn, wasn't conducive to good music--but, then, the liquor wasn't too good, either...
Telegraphic Ornaments. The Board of War Communications resurrected a pre-war U.S. institution, the singing telegram, and hastened to add that this amenity would not be allowed to confuse the nation's serious business. Also back: congratulatory telegrams. Still missing: such Western Union innovations as shopping and messenger service, sale of traveler's checks, and acceptance of express packages...
...book will not be so elaborate as preceding Albums," Blanchard continued, "since many of the activities had closed down and no pictures could be taken of them. But the book will still maintain pre-war appearance, and it will still be a custom...
...mentioned among the extracurricular activities for the short summer term in last week's SERVICE NEWS, Phillips Brooks House, center of Harvard's social service activities, is starting back to its pre-war set-up and plans a re-activated summer schedule, according to John W. Ellison '44, who has returned to Harvard to reconvert...
Figures released in February showed that the Class of 1948 was reversing the wartime trend toward science concentration and that English and allied subjects were first in preference. As the death-rate of service schools began to outdistance the birthrate, the Navy announced its return to pre-war officer standards, with the V-12 program being merged into the NROTC...