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...phonograph in his home and money in his pocket can have the reading done for him by a professional. There were never so many children's records to choose from. Among the new standouts: Danny Kaye's version of a children's favorite, Tubby the Tuba (Decca); a new volume in Capitol's Bozo the Clown series; Peter Lind Hayes' Genie, the Magic Record (Decca); Sterling Holloway's Uncle Remus Stories (Decca); The Little Engine That Could (Victor); Dinah Shore's Bongo (Columbia). Older kids can hear Lionel Barrymore's reading...
...expertness of Holmes' direction and the intricacy of Anderson's arranging became more apparent in the near-perfect acoustic conditions of Symphony Hall than in the buffeting of a Stadium breeze. Beautifully shaded contrasts, a clarinet section which sounded as a single instrument, tremendously impressive weight of tuba and trombone: all these were clearly delineated in the Hall...
First tryouts and rehearsals for the band are scheduled for today in the Payne. Band Room from 2 to 5 o'clock and from 7 to 9 o'clock. Further tryouts for anyone from tuba players to baton twirlers are set for Wednesday evening. As bait to lure new members the band offers choice seats at the football games and a chance to get seats in the cheering sections for companions...
...course Manager Jay Skinner '48 will be glad to see you if you can play a tuba or beat a drum, but what he really wants is someone who can toss that shiny metal shaft around--two, if possible. "We have never marched on the field without a baton twirler to toss his baton over the goal posts," Sinner declared...
...Green recording. Although refusing to provoke any further wrath from Bill, Manager Skinner placed the blame squarely on the columnist's shoulders by giving his trombonists a clean bill of health and commenting that "Cunningham apparently doesn't know a trombone from a tuba anyway...