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...Ballads, points out that in "ancient" days barber shops were provided with lutes or citterns with which waiting patrons could occupy themselves. Also he suggests that "perhaps a barber shop chord is, after all, merely one which mutilates or dresses up some conventional formula of music." Negro Scholar James Weldon Johnson recalls that all barbers in the South used to be black, that every shop had a quartet whose members passed their time experimenting with novel harmonies, sometimes to the accompaniment of demands to "Hold it! Hold...
...Dallas, Tex., police picked up a shaggy-haired young man they found on the street late at night, dressed only in long cotton underdrawers. At headquarters he explained: "I'm Heckter. I hail from up yonder by Weldon, Ark. One night maw was reading to me out of a book and she come across a sign that said somethin' about how you can learn to be a great singer from a teacher in Dallas. Maw made me a pretty new shirt, give me some money and showed me the road to git on comin' this...
...York University got its first Negro faculty member, Poet James Weldon Johnson...
...second and third Boylston prizes, which amount to $35 each, were awarded to William Shepard Baskervill '32, of Charleston, South Carolina, who recited "Creation" by James Weldon Johnson, and to Paul Cashman Reardon '32, of Quincy, who recited "The Highwayman" by Alfred Noyes...
...Francis Boott Prize in musical composition was yesterday awarded to Hubert Weldon Lamb '80, of Concord. The prize carries with it a cash award of $100 which is drawn from the bequest of Francis Boott, of the class...