Word: songs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Belgian Congo last week, the most popular record was a song called Klim Abikisi Mwana. In their beehive huts, natives played it on their ancient, hand-cranked phonographs, clapping their hands gleefully to its calypso-like rhythm. Although the average Bantu laborer makes only about 50? a day, the record was so popular that some 15,000 had already been sold at $1.10 each...
...Song and dance are clearly not Miss Davis' media. The producers should have recognized the limits of her considerable versatility and made better use of her appealing personality and skill as a comedienne. A revue, not a musical comedy, Two's Company might have starred Miss Davis in a number of comic sketches and wrapped the attractive package with the usual musical scenes. Instead, the show leans heavily on the fragile crutch of her singing talents...
President Jordan waited in vain last night for two policeman who accused a Radcliffe girl of stealing a five helmet. The officers appeared Monday night at Whitman clutching a picture of the Radcliffe Song Contest from the October 28 Boston "Globa...
Although the other contestants approved of the prize song, Davison objected and requested that under the 1921 unanimity rule another number be chosen. The contest committee replied tersely: "The song was too simple to suit Harvard...
Except for the one-man club in Singapore, all the other Harvard clubs soon followed suit. Alumni pointed out that an alumnus (Francis Pickernell '14) had selected the ill-fated prize song, which had been written by a Yale...