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Important to watch during the afternoon will be how well the Harvard defense can contain the all-American left side of the Haverford line. Co-captain Paul Shipley at inside left and Arnie Jones at left wing, as well as left fullback Karl Spaeth, form the nucleus of the Haverford team which has a 1 and 1 record so far this season...
Music Pundit Sigmund Spaeth had toiled through statistics and produced for the New York Times Magazine a list of the half-century's "most popular" songs. His1 list: Sweet Adeline (1903), School Days (1907), Shine On, Harvest Moon (1908), Let Me Call You Sweetheart (1910), Down by the Old Mill Stream (1910), I Want a Girl Just Like the Girl That Married Dear Old Dad (1911), St. Louis Blues (1914), Smiles (1917), Stardust (1929), God Bless America...
When argumentative mail came in, Spaeth explained that "most popular" did not necessarily mean "the best." Which were the best? He decided to meet that question headon, too. This week he gave his own answer in the Times. Only two songs, Stardust and St. Louis Blues made both lists. The other eight "best" according to Spaeth: Waiting for the Robert E. Lee (1912), Lazy (1924), The Man 1 Love (1924), Chloe (1927), I'll See You Again (1929), All the Things You Are (1939), If I Loved You (1945), Were Thine That Special Face...
Private Ives could remember other, lazier days. A onetime Eastern Illinois State Teachers College footballer, burly Burl Ives bummed around the U.S. with his guitar, collecting folk songs and singing them to folks. In Manhattan he met Songsleuth Sigmund Spaeth, who sent him to NBC. Ambling amiably up to a mike, he started off with Robin He Married a Wife from the West. But NBC listeners that warm June day in 1940 heard no more than the opening line. "Special bulletin," the announcer broke in, "France has capitulated...
After a final five-and-a-half-hour wrangle between Argentina's waspish Eusebio Gomez, and the U.S.'s bland Carl Bernhardt Spaeth, Argentina's amendment was rejected (only Chile abstaining). With what grace it could, Argentina asked that its "reservations" be noted...