Word: totem
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After last week's race, the men in the press box were ready to forgive Hagg all this puckery humor. In awed silence, they watched him take off his shoes and patter barefoot over the scorching concrete of the stadium to the broadcasting booth. There, impassive as a totem pole, he stood before a microphone, said hello to his countrymen back home...
Smith's new book, a clothesline strung from his best-selling Low Man on a Totem Pole, ought at least keep its author paying stiff-collar taxes. Like Totem Pole it consists of the sort of talk that might be had, by the hour, from any boozy, bawdy, abundant newspaperman. Such talk is dull in spots, complacently boorish in others, childish in some of its conclusions (Westbrook Pegler, though mentally "the human saddle sore" is as a prose stylist "one of the great writers of our day"). At its worst the book has at least the charm...
Rolly Rogers, of Totem Pole fame, will provide the music for the Winthrop House Spring Formal on May 23. Dancing will be both inside and outside...
...That means twenty-five cents for George Frazier. Basie's publicity department ran an ad in Variety calling it "the year's most publicized record"; I imagine they must read this column. . . . The explosive trumpet of Bunny Berigan was to be heard last night over the air from the Totem Pole, and it was the Bunny of five years ago at that. When sober, Berigan can apparently still play the most exciting improvisations, from the standpoint of tone, melodic ideas, or what you will, of any white man, and last night, on numbers like "Lover Come Back...
Half the Indians in Alaska are reasonably good Episcopalians now, but when Bishop Peter Trimble Rowe was sent out to convert them the territory was still just "Seward's Icebox" and the natives were more impressed by their totem poles than by the cross...