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Were Henry Dunster's spirit to roam the property of the University Monday, he would find the grounds and buildings slightly changed from the one, half-completed class room shack with "no floor laid in and, above the hall, no wall separating the studies...
When Jack Kapp was recording master for Brunswick, he used to roam the South looking for new hillbilly quartets, jug bands, spiritual singers, colored jazz outfits and blues shouters to add to Brunswick's list. Jack Kapp not only has big, useful ears, but kind eyes and a soft heart. When he returned to Chicago with his recordings, so depressed would he feel about the underprivileged folk among whom he traveled that it would take two or three nights listening to the Civic Opera before he felt right again. For Mr. Kapp understood Beethoven as well as 3-woogie...
Born 52 years ago in Nova Scotia, Jim Williams was taken as a baby to Detroit, where he grew up, spent one year half-heartedly studying art at Mount Union College. At 15, big and husky as a man, he quit school to roam the Southwest as ranch hand, camp cook, mule skinner, tattoo artist. He was a crack rider with the 15th Cavalry at Fort Sill, Okla. Mustered out, he married, smashed baggage at Chicago's old Northwestern railroad station, got a broken nose as a professional prize fighter, finally settled down as a machinist's assistant...
...bummed her way afoot over most of Europe, making many an acquaintance on the way, once wrote a novel which she lost in Lake Maggiore, married and divorced famed French Journalist Count Bertrand de Jouvenel, accompanied a French youth delegation to Berlin, returned to the U. S. to roam in Mexico, the Texas oil fields, Hollywood...
What this college needs is Ann Sheridan, visiting lecturer on oomph, in person, to melt the snow on the sidewalks, to roam through the stacks of Widener calling to the lost souls of Poon men, to burn up the boards of the New Lecture Hall...