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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Then things began to happen, as a ripping sleet, hail, and rain storm hit the boats with the Crimson in the offshore lane. Up to this point the boats were rowing a usual race, with Cornell lagging with its characteristically slow start. The boats failed to emerge from the storm until after the race was ever, and at times they were completely obscured from the launches only a few yards away...
Rough water from the wake of several pleasure boats made rowing difficult at first, and Jack Wilson found it hard to settle the stroke down to the usual 32, but once he was able to the crew responded beautifully and spaced out well...
Notes between the notes: "Doojie-Woogie," Johnny Hodges' latest effort for Vocation, is well worth getting. It has the usual weird alto sax of the leader and some very fine rhythm riffs . . . Mildred Bailey sings a song from the Mikado, "Tit Willow," and despite shrill shricks of horror from the Savoyards, it still is an excellent job . . . Blue Note, a private recording concern of New York City, has just released its third and fourth records, a ten and twelve inch platter of the blues, with such stars as Frankie Newton and Albert Ammons taking part. While the recording wasn...
...where the efforts of all of his opponents produced only one halved match. Graves took all the others, but he had to work for some of them. Graves and No. 1 man Ace Cordingley form a very strong best ball due; they play together almost every day with the usual amount of side bets. To Graves Cordingley is "hunker"; to Cordingley, Graves is "meaty." Fair-haired Bob is a former Minnesota Junior title-holder, but he has never won his state amateur crown. This year he gets a real chance as the championship is played over his home course--White...
...Fullers of Pate's Siding and their kin have far more in common with hard-working U. S. farmers of the West than with the bizarre, demoralized crackers of Erskine Caldwell's books. The Pate's Siding folk show about the usual run of rural superstitions: those who prepare for the end of the world during an eclipse are the same who invent the community's ghosts and picturesque fables. Their births, deaths, weddings, coon hunts, corn-huskings, box suppers, hog killings, squabbles, worries, jokes and tragedies are memorable because Author Harris writes about them sensitively...