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Originally scheduled for Saturday, at the request of the Davenport smoothies the contest has been shifted to avoid conflicting with the Smith prom...
...callowness of the Princeton man. The Yale man is a lively, boisterous, generous host, and the most rahrah college man cast of the Alleghenies . . . He is apt to be too clothes conscious, too worshipful of unpicturesque tradition, and too conscientious about his weekends in New York, but his junior prom is the peak of most girls' prom trotting ambitious. from the Dartmouth
...Penn State prom date got Hal Kemp his first job in New York. When he was at the Blackhawk in Chicago, nine of the Big Ten schools picked him as best. This led to his first radio commercial. Last year the theatrical weekly, Variety, polied all the colleges and Hal Kemp and the boys came out first. In 10 years Hal estimates that he has played 300 college dances in 53 schools. Four Alpha Chi Rho's from Penn State followed his band one whole summer through the East and Mid-west to dance to his music every night...
Next to Negroes (but a long way behind them), white Southern youngsters are the most inventive and dextrous dancers in the U. S. They work hard at their fun, and to "shine," or perform so as to attract attention, is accounted worthy. Last spring, at a prom at the University of South Carolina, a dance was launched which promised to give Southerners more scope for shining than they had ever enjoyed before. It was called "The Big Apple." A party of students had seen Negroes cavorting through its steps in the "Big Apple Night Club," a onetime synagog in Columbia...
...brokerage house in the early 1880s, Mr. Smythe first learned what treasure is sometimes wrapped in apparently worthless paper. Instructed to sell as junk some old Southern State bonds, young Smythe disposed of most of them for $2 apiece, gave one South Carolina bond to a friend who prom-ised to split any profits he might make on a mysterious sale. A month later Smythe received a check for $400. He lost no time in writing to the Treasurer of South Carolina, who informed him that that particular bond had been redeemable for $1,200. Then & there Floorman Smythe decided...