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Following a hot tip we called from a man standing outside of Mike's Club, we best our way down to Mechanics Hall Wednesday afternoon to investigate the possibility of Harvard hounds entered in the Eastern Dog Club annual fish-fry and sawdust exhibition...
...gathering, reminiscent of the pro-war spring riots, was observed but not hindered by both Yard and Cambridge police. Also in the crowd were increasingly large numbers of local urchins who reveled in the water-bomb throwing and the magnificent sawdust fight which culminated the affair...
More than a thousand cheering spectators gathered yesterday afternoon in front of the Lampoon Building, and threw water and sawdust around as the Lampoon "seceded from the civilized world...
...Episcopal-style evangelism, to be sure. There was no public testimony of the saved, no mourners' bench nor sawdust trail, no Bible-banging nor marimba band. The middle-aged women and young people who came to hear Evangelist Green merely rose to their feet at the proper times or hunched forward in their cane-bottomed seats to pray. But when the week-long mission closed on Sunday night, Bryan Green's audiences had totaled approximately 42,000-an average of about 6,000 a night. Such crowds carried an obvious inference: modern congregations might be ready for some...
Eleven years ago, Hackett, then a young (22) guitarist in Joe Marsala's band, dropped in at Nick's old beer-and-sawdust joint, played some self-taught cornet and was hired on the spot to lead the band in a bigger place that Nick was starting. On opening night, the thin, bashful kid from Providence found himself giving the downbeat to such hot-jazz bigwigs as Trombonist Georg Brunis, Clarinetist Pee Wee Russell, Guitarist Eddie Condon and powerhouse Negro Drummer Zutty Singleton. In the cult-ridden, vociferous world of hot jazz, Hackett became an overnight sensation. Erudite...