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Farewell to Wintergreen...
...Wintergreen for President...
Early in the evening a crimson-clad baud flooded a segment of New Haven with flyers emblazoned with President Conant's picture and advocating "Bryant Wintergreen for President." Few people could guess immediately whether this prauk originated in Cambridge or at Yale, so the total offset was not startling...
...when John Phillips Sousa was the man to be reckoned with and Harvard yet to be heard from. Stomping through the halves of games in the days when Red Grange was carried two miles by jubilant admirers, the Band reached its full growth in the 30's when "Wintergreen" and other Leroy Anderson arrangements filled the Stadium when the teams weren't trying. Perfecting its half-time lock step, the Band could soon wind itself through 33 letters in 7 1-2 minutes while simultaneously playing a medley of the visitor's songs. Dormant during the war, the Band reappeared...
Skilled as they are in letter-perfect footwork, the Band knows the score musically as well. Bandsmen proudly explain that "Wintergreen," their most popular number, has more to it than meets the ear and is actually a blending of 2 Harvard, 2 Yale, 1 Dartmouth, and 1 Princeton songs, all mixed in with "Of Thee I Sing" and then wafted up the aisles of the Stadium. The semicircle formation used to offset the alphabetical parade down the field is an original idea and "Wintergreen" when first heard was considered a daring innovation. People weren't sure whether concert-type arrangements...