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...fast break-away run up the length of the rink. The game, already iced, was bottled and shelved in the last period with scores by Henry Fletcher and Dick Farrington. Shaeffer and Bradley, alumni of St. Marks, put up an especially "rugged and good defense," according to Coach Stan Priddy...
...docket for Monday for Stan Priddy's sextet is a match with St. Marks on the opponents home...
...Herman herd" came to a stop just one year after it won the 1945 band-of-the-year poll by the jazz magazine Metronome. Last week Metronome counted up its 1946 votes and awarded its prize to a band still new to the big time: Stan Kenton's. He finished far ahead of Duke Ellington...
...Stan Kenton is a toothy, tall (6 ft. 4½ in.) piano player who likes to talk about the "sincere sounds" his band makes. He had found that there were still plenty of jobs for young bands which were not fussy about one-night stands and didn't charge too much...
Metronome's prize girl singer of the year is June Christy, 21, a onetime amateur-night winner from Decatur, Ill. She got more votes than Dinah Shore or Jo Stafford. June sings with Stan Kenton's band in the same husky moan as her Kenton predecessor, Anita O'Day. Says she: "I've been hoarse ever since I can remember and Anita has too. Anita has bad breath control and so do I. It makes both of us sing a little flat...