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Lustily singing this battle hymn, 10,000 Washingtonians jampacked ten special trains last week, journeyed to Manhattan. Marching up Broadway behind a 90-piece brass band decked in Indian costume, the hilarious invaders were amazed to see no excitement. Back home in Washington the rah-rah spirit was everywhere. On the streets, in the night clubs, at the movies, in the Supreme Court corridors, people were humming...
Washingtonians liked the Marshall whoopee between the halves: Indian war dances, shag contests, crooners, swing bands and the intricate maneuvers of his 90-piece marching band. Most of all they liked the latest Marshall innovation: a rah-rah song, Hail to the Redskins, with music by Barnee Breeskin, band leader at the swank Shoreham Hotel, and words by one-time Cinemactress Corinne Griffith (Declasse, The Lady in Ermine), wife of Big Chief Marshall. The nine other owners of big-league professional teams, well aware that the Redskins have attracted the largest crowds (440,000 in 13 games) this season...
...words characteristic of men ion each college. The poll concluded that Yale men are college-loyal, athletic, socialite, hard-drinking, and typical college students. Princeton's sons were described as being style-setting, smooth, gentlemanly, loyal-to-college and socialite. Dartmouth produces outdoor, college-loyal, hard-drinking athletic, and rah-rah men. All voters thought their own college broad-minded...
Definitely not to be "a rah-rah affair," but rather a demonstration to Dick Harlow and his team that the student body is behind them. The rally is tentatively scheduled to take place in Memorial Hall. Whether or not the gathering can be held is to be decided by the Student Council at its meeting tomorrow...
Life Begins in College (20th Century-Fox) discovers the lunatic Ritz Brothers joining the general rah-rah of autumn, digging the meaning elbow of their buffoonery into the ribs of the football fans. Self-styled apotheoses of the wacky, the Brothers pull on helmets and shoulder pads, copy the old one-minute-to-go formula in triplicate, climax the film by beating rival Midwestern for dear old Lombard when Harry Ritz throws a high pass, catches it himself, and runs for the winning touchdown...