Word: rhythm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...balder, and had become the most celebrated singer in the world. Harry Harris had written a few song hits, but was known very largely to his personal friends. Al Rinker had fattened up and looked like the radio executive he is. But when this trio, once known as the Rhythm Boys, held a reunion with Paul Whiteman's band in NBC's Hollywood studio last week, they sang Mississippi Mud, the song which made them famous in 1927, just as though the years and all the changes had made no real difference...
There were some youngish soldiers & sailors who were there to hear Dinah Shore, on the same program, and who thought the Rhythm Boys leaned slightly toward the corn. But to many who had grown up with the syncopated ditty, Mississippi Mud seemed a solid, perdurable part of U.S. musical history...
...seen himself in a mirror. Thereupon Psychologist Wolff began to confront his guinea pigs with their own pictures and records (mingled with others), with surprising results: only one in ten recognized his own recorded voice, most failed to recognize their own profiles, hands, mirrored hand writing, or speaking rhythm. Half failed to identify their storytelling style. But perversely, every person recognized his own gait, though he had probably never seen it before...
...grinds for most of the men were the 100-yard dash, made with a barrackmate hanging on like an Old Man of the Sea, and the step test, which called for raising leaden feet in G. I. shoes a distance of 20 inches in a 1-2-3-4 rhythm for five minutes without rest...
...Harvard Glee Club will provide the melodic counterpart to the Yard's regular rhythm of hup-two-three-four on Tuesday night when it gives the first of its traditional spring concerts from the steps of Widener Library at 7 o'clock...