Word: yardings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hotel offered better money. From then on he stuck to music, studied under Organist Charles Maskill and Pianist Rafael Joseffy, applied this talent to writing vaudeville songs, editing for a Philadelphia music publisher, and running his own player piano roll company. He used to pound rolls out by the yard, under some 20 different names-Preston Dupre for the classics, Cyril Crossing for tangos, other Frenchy names for "saluts d'amour," etc. In 1916 he came to Broadway and Tin Pan Alley, arranged and directed musicals for Jerome Kern, Rudolf Friml, Ziegfelu, Rodgers & Hart, Gershwin. He arranged the swipes...
...Newark, N. J., Mr. & Mrs. Gerard Gardiner's two-story frame house caught fire. Awakened by the smoke, Mrs. Gardiner's sister wrapped one-month-old Kevin Gardiner in blankets, called to men in the yard, and dropped the baby from the second-story window. In the smoke and darkness they thought she was tossing a bundle of clothes, let it fall, dragged it 20 feet from the house, left it in the snow. Half an hour later a fireman heard the baby cry, picked it up unharmed...
Individual entrants will probably include Charley Smith and Bob Gammons, who did 5.5 in the 60 yard dash at the Millrose Games; Mason Fernald, veteran hurdler; Steve Madey, dark-horse pole-vaulter and erstwhile softball pitching wizard, who should top 13 feet; Charley Oldfather, lanky Sophomore who will run the 1000; Gene Clark, who last year covered the mile stretch in 4.25; Pen Tuttle, whose entrance in the two mile run is doubtful after an illness earlier this week; and Bob Partlow, Sophomore broad and high jump flash, who does around 22 feet, 6 inches in the former event...
Bill Daugherty, breastroker, for the Red and Blue, will offer the Crimson butterfliers a good race in the 200 yard event. He has been swimming it under 2:38 this season, somewhat better than the local efforts. Coach Ulen will probably pit Walker and Waldron against him, retaining Max Kraus for the medley...
...yard free relay: Won by Boston (Cavanaugh, Baldwin, Lombardi, Doherty); second, Harvard (Ball, Brehmer, Downing, Godfrey). Time...