Word: rumor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile in Washington, the Woodrum committee went marching on through the WTA jungle of fact and rumor...
Notes between the notes: This week's collection of facts and rumors assumes such proportions that we have to stack it up at the head of things. No. 1 is that the Goodman brother act has ceased. Since the formation of the present band, brother Harry has been playing bass and brother Irving has been doing trumpet work on and off--mostly off. Now definite word arrives that Harry is leaving to devote full time to his Pick-A-Rib joint on 52nd Street in New York, while brother Irving is just leaving. This is not to be considered...
...rumor, but definite fact is it that the swing end of the Freshman smoker the other night was really swell. Jack Hill's band was very solid backing and played good swing on its own numbers, Roy Eldridge and Albert Ammons stole the show with their fine jazz, Ella Fitzgerald really made a tremendous hit (she later said to me that she had more fun working the Smoker than anything she had done in a long while) by here very swell singing, and Hildegarde proved herself far more than just a good piano player and better singer by her showmanship...
...Rumor in Manhattan last week was that, along with Father Williams, the other Cowley Fathers would leave St. Mary the Virgin, presumably taking the vimpa with them. In Boston next week Father Williams is to be an attending presbyter at the consecration of his predecessor, Bishop-elect Burton. At this service no vimpas will be used: the consecrator will be the Presiding Bishop of the Church, Henry' St. George Tucker, who has never worn a cope, much less a mitre...
Keppel, whose new office was unofficially reported in a CRIMSON rumor story on March 28, came to Harvard from Groton School and entered upon an extensive undergraduate career, which included, in addition to his post as head of the Student Council, positions as chairman of the Red Book, president of the Eliot House Committee, secretary of Phillips Brooks House, and member of the Permanent Class Committee...