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...Alton) Rinker can remember when he and his friend Crosby had a band at Gonzaga University in Spokane. Says Al: "Bing had a swell set of trap drums with a beautiful Hawaiian sunset painted on the big drum and lit from the inside. . . . He still can't read music and wasn't much of a drummer; he never could roll." In 1925 the boys left school and began a hazardous professional life with the help of Bing's brother Everett, a truck salesman, and Al's sister, who later turned out to be the superb blues...
Among newspapermen, Considine, 36, a veteran of twelve years of sportswriting, has the reputation of being able to work anywhere. One of his editors once said: "During the World Series, we watched Bob bat out a swell column ... in exactly nine minutes, with his typewriter on a baggage wagon and the conductor yelling 'All aboard.' " Now he was too absorbed to take notes...
Well, here it is, almost a week since the N.T.S. Pop's Concert and I can still remember what a swell affair it was and how much fun we all had, not to mention the whole two and one-half ours added liberty...
...Glee Club sang and did a swell job with "Steal Away" and darn near did steal away the show ... The thing that did make a big hit with all the Lads seemed to be those tall, cool pitchers of claret punch and those snappy waitresses who seemed to be on hand just as the glass was empty ... The Music? Oh, yes, I drank that...
...twas like turning the knife in the wound when you gave out with "Good Morning, Navy Dear." We write this at 0615 one morning while still mad, but we in Mellon know youse guys is really swell people, so we humbly suggest reveille calls inside the dorms instead of in the alley, and musters back of Glass Hall before 0700. Thanks, Army, for hearin' our gripe...