Word: weekending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Carl A. Goldman '55, chairman of the Inter-House Dance Committee, last night charged the Glee Club with breaking a verbal agreement when it cancelled the concert it had scheduled for the All-House Weekend...
...Crimson sailing team lost three meets over the weekend as swift M.I.T. boats took all the first places...
Proper Climate. In Tulsa, the Jenkins appliance store filled its display windows with air conditioners, watched a blizzard drop temperatures from springlike warmth to a record low for the date, posted an abject apology: "Sorry for the change . . . We left one of those conditioners on over the weekend...
...with a smile, read a prepared statement which began in Italian and ended in two sentences of English. His carefully-memorized, well-pronounced sentences: I do not want to finish before apologizing for getting here on Sunday afternoon. I do hope it has not spoiled too much of your weekend...
musical ears last week: Swing King Benny Goodman, who was doing a Series of weekend stands in Manhattan's Basin Street nightclub. Playing in an octet (including Trumpeter Ruby Braff, Trombonist Urbie Green. Tenor Saxman Paul Quinichette), Clarinetist Goodman occasionally seemed to be dreaming of other years, other sounds-and the jampacked crowd included many greying swing cats who could dream with him. But his playing revealed none of the tenseness that took him out of his ill-fated tour with Louis Armstrong (TIME, April 27, 1953), and little of the formality of his concert appearances with symphony orchestras...