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...merely borrowed the tune of a Rabelaisian old ditty called The Tailor's Boy, and given it new lyrics. The teaser: Grean's storytelling lyrics never do specify what "the thing" is; they just pause while Singer Phil Harris suggestively waits for three resounding booms of the bass drum. Sample...
What in the world was the thing? Pop music fans didn't care, so long as they could come in with the bass drum...
...goodness sake, Manley," said Victor Milgrim in the sort of hearty executive bass, vibrant with command and ownership, in which big Hollywood producers are supposed to address their writers and prize great Danes. "I'm not asking you to go to Tibet." All Producer Milgrim wanted to do was to persuade Manley Halliday, the famous novelist of the '20s whom he had picked off the skids and put on his payroll, to fly East for a week. The idea, said Milgrim, was for Halliday to go sit under an elm at Webster College, the location for the musical...
Head Drillmaster Gordon D. Henderson '51 said last night that band members did not discover the rain's damage until drill practice Wednesday. Soon after, the Band's truck carried to repair shops 15 clarinets with cracked necks, four tubas with rusted valves, three snare drums and one bass drum with broken cowhides, and several damaged saxophones and piccolos...
...rows were solid with Russians who cheered with everybody else. It was not greatly surprising that the Russians had come-after all, the opener was Tchaikovsky's Eugen Onegin, a longtime Russian favorite. The surprise was that they had joined inwith hearty applause for tall, dark-voiced U.S. Bass-Baritone George London (TIME, Jan. 9), who sang the title role...