Word: swing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Michael Levin '42, who today begins a weekly swing column for the CRIMSON has been writing on jazz for the Cleveland News for a year an a half...
Levin has "jammed" with Benny Goodman, Jimmy Lunceford, Glen Gray and Gene Krupa in his capacity as a piano player. He has ambitions to form a band here and feels that swing music is "jass in the truest sense of the world...
...does not feel that jazz is a particularly good career because, he says, only the top men make a living from it. Despite this pessimism Levin is hopeful that he can arouse interest in swing...
...Freshman Union Committee will give its second dance of the year on Friday night. Again, Don Gahan's music will be featured. The Union Committee, in conjunction with the dance, is conducting a poll among the members of the class to determine their favorite swing band. Thus far, Artie Shaw, the newest fad in popular music, is leading in votes. The musical arrangements of the winning orchestra will be played for one half hour during the evening...
...Supreme Court, Latham took up two of the proposed amendments which will come before the present Congress. The first transferring judicial power to the District Courts, he held would only delay action, whereas the second replacing the present impartial Labor Court with one representing different factions would swing the balance of power too far in favor of the employer...