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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Famous Door late in April; and that Bud Freeman is going to take a mixed band into one of the night spots. A grand idea:--Goodman started the breakdown of the Jim Crow traditions in regard to colored musicians playing with white, and it now looks as though a mixed band may have some chance for success. . . . Jimmy Dorsey's newest disc, "It's All Yours" has a vocal by Helen O'Connell that, despite the handicap of bad key, shows much improvement. Catch her last two measures and Herb Haymer's fragment at the end . . . Decca records, having lost...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Swing | 3/17/1939 | See Source »

Boston, so far undefeated this year, almost threw Harkness with a fireman's lift. Though both matmen used every kind of twist and turn, neither was able to pinion the other. The fighting was fast for any kind of match, and for an exhibition it was unsurpassed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Boston, Harkness Give Exhibition Wrestling Match | 3/15/1939 | See Source »

...important changes are expected for next fall's coaching staff, though some of the assistants who graduate from Law School this spring will have to be replaced Harlow said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Coach Harlow Returns From Vacation To Open Spring Practice for Booters | 3/15/1939 | See Source »

Application blanks for admission to the Houses are now in the bands of the members of the Freshman class and are available to the Classes of 1940 and 1941. All Sophomores and Juniors who wish House accommodations next year must apply at University 4, even though their names are already on the waiting list...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BLANKS FOR HOUSE APPLICATIONS OUT | 3/14/1939 | See Source »

...East of Eden, the best that can be said is that its earlier chapters compare favorably with the minor novels of Sholom Asch. The worst that can be said is that much of it sounds as though it had been dictated by the Jewish Daily Forward's Editor Abraham Cahan, Author Singer's first U. S. sponsor and one of the shrillest critics of things Communist. In this story of an underdog, the hero is Nachman Ritter, son of a poor peddler. A Talmud student turned baker, Nachman is bewitched by an egomaniac Communist caricature, endures nine years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Singer's Midget | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

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