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...weeks, a small but ever-expanding group of Dunster residents has been stirring up the morass of inactivity that has characterized the House system in recent years. Terming itself an "Extra-Curricular Affairs Committee," the Dunster organization is providing a basis for House clubs devoted to anything from rhumba to chess. The Committee acts as a headquarters for men who have these special interests, and engages others to act as informal instructors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Self-Start | 3/16/1948 | See Source »

Esprit de House received a boost from the Dunster House Extra-Curricular Affairs Committee last week in the form of free courses in the liberal arts of rhumba, chess, bridge, and squash...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dunster Men Get Instruction Gratis | 3/8/1948 | See Source »

Back from a year-long run on Broadway, the man with the India-rubber legs and the pantomimic face makes an otherwise modiocre revue well worth seeing. Unchallenged master of the soft-shoe dance, Ray brought the house down with his hilarious parodies of the latter-day rhumba and jitterbug, and then went on to display further talents as a top-notch practitioner of low comedy in several skits that would have done credit to the Old Howard in its better days...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 6/5/1947 | See Source »

...background material, or check a fact, in a hurry. They get about 5,000 requests a month. For a recent issue of TIME they were asked to determine (among other things): the wage rates of natives in the Solomon Islands; the form of poetry most similar to the rhumba rhythm; major U.S. cities controlled by Republican mayors; the number of U.S. synthetic rubber plants that have closed down; how many Methodists there are in Europe ; the Moslem stand on birth control...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Aug. 5, 1946 | 8/5/1946 | See Source »

...current woman you love is a constant problem in Boston, I've found. (I didn't mean it that way, bub; I'm talking about going out). It's especially rugged if you have an overtrained musical car that refuses to take in anything with fiddles, accordions, or rhumba bands from Brookline-on-the-East River, pronounced Flatbush...

Author: By S/sgt GEORGE Avakian, | Title: JAZZ, ETC. | 2/1/1944 | See Source »

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