Word: sextet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Seeking their second straight win of the season, the Freshman hockey team will face stiffer competition than they met in downing Rindge Tech Monday when they take the Arena ice at 2 o'clock this afternoon against a strong Belmont Hill sextet...
Other line possibilities are Dave Farrell, Bill Hamlin, and Lou Preston. Farrel's affinity for Jayvee captaincies extends back to 1943 when he was named to lead the Junior puckster sextet, while Hamlin performed with the Freshmen in pre-war days. Preston, without previous college experience, has looked impressive in early practices and may land a berth on the starting line...
...accompaniment of the equally sickening singing of Dinah Shore. Andy Russell's singing will probably not even get a rise out of the bobby soxers, while the Andrews Sisters' rendition of "Johnny Fedora and Alice Blue Bonnet" would have tasted better with less sugar. The sequence featuring the Goodman sextet is a bit of surrealism that seems to have no place in the realm of motion pictures, though it comes out better in an animated cartoon than when dragged into a regular movie as a dream sequence. "Roll Along, Blue Bayon," which stars two cranes cavorting in the heart...
Also brought out in the discussion before the final vote was Stacy's record with the original Benny Goodman Sextet, which featured such distinguished jazzmen as Harry James, Gene Krupa, and Lionel Hampton. He also worked for five years with Bob Crosby and Tommy Dorsey...
Died. Marjorie Relyea Stokes, 76, one of the original "Floradora" sextet, who reversed the marital timetable of most Floradora girls by marrying a wealthy man (William D. Holmes, Andrew Carnegie's nephew) before her stage success; in Manhattan...