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...cause for alarm Friday night at Symphony Hall disappeared as soon as a top balcony listener stood up, cupped his hands, and shouted for "Wintergreen." The Band had started off in a rather unpromising fashion, with a Suite by Holst and a piece by Vaughn Williams that seemed to suit the concert hall more than it did the players. But the call for "Wintergreen" showed that the audience still had faith in the Red Coats, and thought better of Stadium music than of symphony-type arrangements...
...stood up took a bow. He stood up twice more during the concert, each time for better cause, for his Columbia and Yale Medleys were every bit as good as they sounded the days of the games. Soon after the Yale Medley, the Band broke down and played "Wintergreen" and the man in the second balcony, who had been calling for it all evening, stood up and bowed...
...just how they contributed to the 70th Anniversary Benefit. But the Annex wasn't forgotten when the Riffs left the stage, for the final number of the Band was "Radcliffe, Now We Rise to Greet Thee," and the rest of the audience stood up and cheered. Even "Wintergreen" was forgotten in the applause...
...polls, to be irresistible to the College's humorists, who wrote in votes for many curious people. Ted Williams led the write-ins with four, and was followed closely by Senator Vandenberg with three, and President Conant and Harold Stassen with two each. Abraham Lincoln, Father Feeney, John P. Wintergreen, Sigmund Freud, Jim Cronin, William Jennings Bryan, and Mickey Mouse got a vote spiece...
...this afternoon when you cheer the blend of fife and tuba that is "Wintergreen," look for a moment at the man with the Dewey button and the tear in his eye and the man with the Truman button and the tear in his eye. These men understand. They know whose absence it is that makes the heart grow heavier this autumn. And not all the brass in Bubduk can blow loud enough to make up the loss of John P. Wintergreen...