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...session at eleven-fifteen on WEEI. George isn't quite as at case as he is in print five days a week, but something interesting always happens. Last week Ben Pollack divulged in an interview that Benny Goodman used to play cornet occasionally in the most exciting Bix Beiderbecke vein. Of late, the program has included at times a record-spotting quiz, at which this column will be represented tomorrow, along with Count Basic, Al Morgan, and perhaps Lionel Hampton...
...tanks raised clouds of dust, scaring the paddy birds and parrots. Burma's valleys run north, the direction of the Jap's main advances, but in the hot season the smaller rivers are dry, and detachments could be sent west without much trouble. One force crossed the vein-like little streams that slice up lower Burma and reached Bassein, just over the coastal hills from the Bay of Bengal...
...historymaker, the Argonaut was also a moneymaker. Deep in the heart of the incredibly rich Mother Lode vein, its 6,000-ft. shafts have carried up over $19,000,000 in gold since 1850. Much of this went to Jackson barkeepers, storekeepers and bawdy-house keepers, helped keep the town going when the expected factories and payrolls never appeared. Now the show is almost over...
...massed voices of the Harvard Glee Club and the Radcliffe Choral Society will fill Sanders Theatre at 8:15 this evening when the two organizations present their annual Cambridge concert, Director G. Wallace Woodworth '24, associate professor of Music, has combined selections in the classical vein with a number of more modern choral pieces in a program composed mainly of lesser known concert works...
...Admiral of the Ocean Sea" is by no means a staid biography. It explodes many of the myths that we have come to associate with Columbus, yet it does so in a light-hearted vein. Columbus did not have to convince the authorities that the world was round (they had known it long before); the story of Columbus and his egg was probably a figment of the imagination of a later writer; it is untrue that the invention of the astrolabe enabled Columbus to discover America--he didn't know how to use it then. Professor Morison can write beautiful...