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Could it was that Midshipmen have begun investing in steady dates? Why else the lack of enthusiasm for the Pine Manor shindig tomorrow night? It's worth it just for the ride in one o' them there gas buggies, almost. Unleas you can show us someone like Oakesey's Barbara B. or Slater's Gloria N., we say c'mon along and take a chance on your good looks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NSCS Midshipmen | 4/9/1943 | See Source »

Verdi wrote it for an international shindig in London in 1862, when part of Italy was still under the Austrian heel, and he always considered it a musical indiscretion. But Toscanini, who has scrupulously avoided any truck with Fascism, found Verdi's Garibaldian sentiments too appropriate to neglect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Hymn of the Nations | 2/8/1943 | See Source »

...Kenesaw M. Landis II (nephew of the baseball commissioner), who had questioned them, took them home with him. The Elks gave a dance in their honor. Members of the American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Elks, Eagles, Knights of Columbus and Rotary Club got together to plan a giant shindig...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIANA: Logansport's Lions | 6/22/1942 | See Source »

Continuing in its efforts to make this year's Freshman Smoker "the greatest Yardling Shindig of all time," the Committee, through its chairman Richard McCarthy, announced yesterday the addition of another ranking entertainer to its list of stars. The newcomer is Anne White, famed in Boston cafe society circles as a singer of sophisticated songs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cafe Society Singer To Appear at Smoker | 5/5/1942 | See Source »

...been U.S. art's Kentucky Derby, up to now has been rated above Chicago's show. This year both exhibitions changed their rules. Pittsburgh went democratic, announced that it would accept only the works of U.S. artists who had never before been represented in its big shindig. Chicago went exclusive, skimmed only the cream off this year's crop of U.S. painting and sculpture. Result : Chicago's was better worth seeing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Chicago v. Pittsburgh | 11/3/1941 | See Source »

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