Word: strings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This super jam-session was designed not primarily for its small U. S. audience but for English swing fans who heard it over an exclusive BBC broadcast. King of Swing Benny Goodman was conspicuously absent. He was at Manhattan's Town Hall playing with the sedate Budapest String Quartet in an unswung version of Mozart's Clarinet Quintet in A Major. Chamber-music alligators found Goodman's classical tooting almost in the groove...
...line. It worked. But it was too late. Two minutes later it was all over, 13-to-7. And the statistics told an extraordinary tale: U. S. C. had gained 378 yards to California's 68; 20 first downs to California's two. Snipping California's string of 18 consecutive victories, Southern California, after five humiliating years as an also-ran, was coming back...
Into the broad bay of Beirut, on whose shores St. George is said to have slain his dragon, among the dirty fishing feluccas off Genoa and Leghorn, past the ruined English mole into Tangier, into Oran and Salonika and Jaffa and many another exotic port, push a string of fat-bellied, black-hulled, matter-of-fact ships with extravagantly alliterative names (examples: Excalibur, Exochorda, Exeter, Excambion). Most have proud six-foot letters on their hulls - AMERICAN EXPORT LINES. Their fore-and after-kingposts, surrounded by a cluster of loading booms like umbrella ribs, point ambitiously...
Mike Chohen played fullback for both A and B. Gardelia and Smith, the alternate fullbacks were away from the field with hour exams. So far the starting lineup against Virginia Saturday will be the regular first string, with the question of the fullback up in the air. Smith is the likely choice, judging from the Chicage game...
...James, sophomore tailback injured in scrimmage Monday afternoon, is definitely out of the Virginia game and probably out of the Yale fray also, it was revealed last night by coaching officials. Harlow's third string tailback completed three out of four passes in the Army game, one of them for a touchdown...