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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...knows how much of it Louis really did start and how much of it was river boat and Harlemese. But the fact remains that a great many of his early records contained the slang that musicians use today. You won't hear musicians talking about "licorice sticks" (a jitterbug term for clarinet) whereas you will hear them talking about "gage" and "tea" (two terms for marijuana...

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: Swing | 4/14/1939 | See Source »

Deadline for Student Council Scholarships to be applied on the April term-bill is April 20, Robert M. Bunker, Treasure of the Council, announced last night. Applicants may apply to Bunker at Winthrops H-34 or any of the other members of the scholarship committee, who are Cleveland Amory '39, Eliot A-32, Phil C. Neal '40, Dunster G-52, and Morton G. Feed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COUNCIL SCHOLARSHIPS | 4/13/1939 | See Source »

This incident is only one example of the hundreds of forms of pressure which had been brought to bear on President Lebrun. who some time ago expressed his reluctance to run for a second seven-year term. This week, just four days before the election, he bucked up enough to announce that he would run again. In a speech in Montélimar. in the Rhone valley, at ceremonies memorializing France's seventh President (1899-1906). Emile Loubet, President Lebrun quoted a famous Loubet statement: "I didn't come here [into office] for my pleasure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Not for Pleasure | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

Berenice Abbott was one of the first U. S. photographers to conclude that the art of the camera consists in making visual records. This is a long-term point of view, involving the fact that photographs like Eugene Atget's of Paris become poignant to most people only gradually, as years pass and streets vanish. Berenice Abbott from Springfield, Ohio, learned photography in Paris in the darkroom of Stylist Man Ray. Returning to Manhattan in 1929, she was overwhelmed with a desire to document "the whole crazy city...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Abbott's New York | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

...offers a last chance for Freshmen who are primarily interested in news work, since News editors are ordinarily elected only as Freshmen. The Business competition is also restricted to Yardlings, while the Editorial Board is limiting this competition to Sophomores. There will be no Photographic Board tryouts until next term...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON COMPETITIONS FOR 8 BOARDS BEGIN WEDNESDAY | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

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