Word: templetone
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Broadway would have called him a sockeroo. He would have had a radio spot, performing more astounding feats on the fiddle than Alec Templeton's on the piano. He would have found a way of getting the jitterbug trade as well as the longhairs. Hollywood would have carpentered movies to fit his gaunt, satanic countenance, his lean frame, his wild dark hair which he did up in curlpapers...
Plans for the annual banquet, which will be held on June 7 or 8, were formulated. Christian M. Lauritzen II '40, who is this year's president, will assist Donald McD. Thurber '40 and Kennedy Smith '43 on the banquet committee. Templeton Smith '40 and Willard Waterous '43 will arrange for a faculty member to speak at the meeting...
...RECORDS: Hazy and Blue,: a nice job on the Templeton tune by Kay Kyser. Song itself sounds like the concert jazz that was the range in the middle thirties... "Perfidia" by Nana Rodrigo is listed as a bolero, but that's about as far as the boleroness of the thing goes. Sounds vaguely like a foxtrot that was told to go South American, met a rhumba on the way and gave up in the middle... Tiger Rag"--this tune has been torn apart for so many years by so many bands, that any version is apt to sound trite...
Second Varsity 150-pound: Robert Homans '40, stroke; George C. Cutler, Jr. '40, 7; Hallburton Fales, 2d '42, 6; Templeton Smith '40, 5; John S. Stillman '40, 4; Richard B. McAdoo '42, 3; Walter N. Rothschild, Jr. '42, 2; Eliot Hubbard, 3d '41, bow; Richard W. Palmer '42, coxswain...
Each year, with the enthusiasm of a commuter with a set of new garden tools, the radio business plants a batch of new shows. Last year's planting was unusually successful, producing such flourishing specimens as Alec Templeton Time, Pot o' Gold, Mr. District Attorney. This season, U. S. radio spaded early. Last week five new sprouts appeared, and one recently transplanted radio perennial struggled for survival...