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Princeton hockey coach Dick Vaughn's proposed that the two Eastern representatives to the N.C.A.A. Tournament be selected from among the winner of the New England, Ivy, and Tri-State College Leagues was criticized yesterday by local hockey coaches...
...Nawn (H) defeated Potter, 17-14, 15-7, 15-4; Ufford (H) defeated Malani, 15-5, 15-4, 15-10; Watts (H) defeated Geisler, 15-11, 15-7, 15-7; Hoar (H) defeated Ruanglek, 15-10, 15-5, 15-5; Mugaseth (H) defeated Vaughn, 15-4, 15-6, 15-12; Flagg (H) defeated Silveston, 15-7, 15-7, 15-11; Symmes (H) defeated Gesler...
...year they play as many as 275 one-night stands in theaters, clubs and dance halls from Scranton, Pa. to Girard, Kans., and from Calumet, Mich, to the Ohio River. In big towns on the circuit, they have been known to outdraw such name bands as Guy Lombardo and Vaughn Monroe 2 to i. In small mining and farming communities a Yankovic appearance can bring out a crowd that is twice the size of the local population...
Small-Town Boy. What had made 38-year-old Vaughn Monroe's outfit a $2,000,000-a-year business was partly luck, mostly hard work and sound business sense. When he got a chance to head his own twelve-piece band in 1940, Monroe gave up his concert ambitions, trained with a vocal coach for four months to tone his big voice down to dance-hall size. At the same time he mapped out his strategy for winning the public. One important campaign detail: constant caravaning through the hinterlands...
Time for Table-Hopping. It all added up to big business. In addition to Vaughn Monroe Productions Inc. (which covers his tours, records, and radio shows, brought in $1,000,000 last year), he owns or has an interest in a fleet of Boston taxicabs, an office building, a song-publishing house, a moving-picture producing outfit which has just completed a picture starring Vaughn Monroe...