Word: whiteman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...California, in 1933, Martin heard a radio program called The World's Largest Make-Believe Ballroom. It was simply a daily program of phonograph records, but the announcer made a great pretense of having, say, Jan Garber playing on Stage One, Paul Whiteman waiting his turn on Stage Two, Rudy Vallee in the wings, ready to croon. The announcer carried on one-sided conversations with the great names on the record labels, took listeners in their imagination to a Make-Believe Ballroom, far from any two-by-four radio studio...
...HAVEN, Connecticut Harold Bartlett Whiteman, Jr., of Nashville, Tennessee, a left halfback, today was unanimously chosen captain of Yale's 1940 football team...
...Whiteman, 19, is one of the youngest of Yale's captains, A six-footer, weighing 185 pounds, he is a Junior who prepped at Taft School, Waterbury, Connecticut, played on Yale's Freshman team and won his letter as a blocking back last year...
...Within five months Glenn Miller's band was causing more rug-dust to fly, making more phonograph records, and playing more radio dates than Goodman and Shaw together. Last month the Chesterfield Hour conferred swing's Pulitzer Prize on Miller by signing him up to take Paul Whiteman's place, beginning Dec. 27. Last week Trombonist Miller, now undisputed King of Swing, went back to play a week's engagement, just for old times' sake, at the Meadowbrook Club...
When it was Yale's turn to fumble and Dick Paster fell on Burr's dropped ball on the 37, Whiteman's interception stopped short Crimson joy two plays later...