Word: whites
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cutler and Powers are all in the running. Big Jim wanted to enter the quarter, too, but the authorities said no because he has not swum it this year. Chet Sagenkahn will enter the dives and should do well if he concentrates on the high-board. Art Bosworth, Bob White, and George Dana of the Crimson team are staying home because of health and studies...
...same style); whenever you hear a band playing with that feeling of being just behind the beat, but not worrying too much about catching up, and brass with great solidity but not noise, you have Kansas City swing and music worth listening to. Goodman tried to build a white band that could play this way (and had one for a while), but as soon as he added Harry James and the "powerhouse trumpet" style, he should have rented the band out for pile-driving, not for playing swing...
...Wilson's new band will open at the Famous Door late in April; and that Bud Freeman is going to take a mixed band into one of the night spots. A grand idea:--Goodman started the breakdown of the Jim Crow traditions in regard to colored musicians playing with white, and it now looks as though a mixed band may have some chance for success. . . . Jimmy Dorsey's newest disc, "It's All Yours" has a vocal by Helen O'Connell that, despite the handicap of bad key, shows much improvement. Catch her last two measures and Herb Haymer...
Down went the stars of Executives White and Bitner, up went the star of Joe Connolly. Tom White kept his title but lost his authority, Harry Bitner lost both. Cherubic Joe Connolly became general manager of all Hearst newspapers, responsible directly to Judge Shearn. Photographed looking up at tall Joe Connolly at a Gridiron Club dinner (see cut, p. 49) stubby Clarence Shearn cracked: "That's just the way it is. I'm looking up and saying: 'Save us, Joe, save...
...other men who participated in the contest, Lee Bird, Chet Legg, Charley Lutz, and Sam White are Juniors, while Homer Peabody is a Sophomore. Yale has selected Tom Erickson and Al Stevens to be co-captains of their 1939-40 cage squad, and the next Harvard leader will probably be chosen at the squad picture Wednesday...