Word: w
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...W music which forms the baseline for the record is best typefied by Bill Munroe, who coined the term "bluegrass." (Actually a sub-division of Country & Western, Appalachia as opposed to Texas.) It is instrumentally dependent on banjo and guitar, with an occasional mandolin or harmonica. The nasal vocals revolve around lost love and mother, both topics being kept quite separate...
...most part, however, the Class of 1919 continued to enjoy Boston's places and people. President and Mrs. Lowell held receptions for students every Sunday, except when he was away campaigning for the League. Al Jolson played "Sinbad" at the Boston Opera House and D. W. Griffith's "Broken Blossoms" had an exceptional run at the Colonial Theater...
...according to the students, who said they had merely been walking in a group of some 75 to 100 to watch firemen put out a grass fire. Without warning or provocation, they said, the police opened up in a murderous fusillade of shotgun, pistol and rifle fire. Said Charles W. Hildebrand, a student: "At first I thought they were firing blanks, but then somebody, yelled, 'Oh Lord, I'm hit!' I felt a blow, like a brick, on the back of my leg. I went down and got up and I was hit again...
...Marshall W. Nirenberg, SC.D., Nobel prizewinning biochemist...
...Michael W. Hyde '69 and Frederick G. Fisher '69, spokesmen for the group, said that they are organizing seniors throughout the college to participate in the demonstration. They said the number of people who will participate depends upon the disciplinary action taken by the Committee of Fifteen. Hyde predicted that perhaps 400 seniors will join the demonstration if the Committee expels anyone...