Word: quartetting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Long Island Sound's saltwater sailors: an intersectional team match in International 14-foot dinghies; defeating a quartet of fresh-water skippers from the Great Lakes; in two out of three races; on the Sound, off Larchmont, N.Y. Strange to the Sound skippers were the boats; strange to the Lake skippers were the waters. Tied for individual honors with 18 points each were New York's Corny Shields and Ohio's Gordon Douglass...
...sing-First Tenor, Second Tenor, First Bass, Second Bass-he plays a 75? disc. On one side his part in Sweet Adeline, Let Me Call You Sweetheart and In the Evening by the Moonlight is sung solo; on the other the songs are let loose by a professional quartet, in which the amateur joins...
...Listen-n-Sing" records were devised by Duncan D. Sutphen Jr., Manhattan adman and onetime Princeton glee clubber. The songs are sung by an NBC quartet, whose members felt self-conscious singing separately; the second bass quacked and cracked through five tries before he got it right. If the first records sell, sea chanties and tougher barbershop tunes like Sylvia will be recorded...
Daniel Saw the Stone (The Golden Gate Quartet; Okeh). The sort of exciting harmony and tempo usually heard only from colored spiritual singers in the remote Southeastern backwoods, and not in Manhattan nightclubs-where, it so happens, the Golden Gate Quartet does sing...
Riding rough-shed over their Crimson rivals, the Yale Polo Team completely routed the Harvard horsemen Saturday afternoon to score a decisive 14 to 1 victory in their final match of the season. Tom Higgonson, number 3 man on the quartet, scored Harvard's lone marker...