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...played by Hal Kemp and his usually lively band, Brunswick's Gloomy Sunday wallows dismally along in E flat minor, the dirge effect enhanced by a pair of French horns, and ends with a coda apparently suggested by Chopin's Funeral March. Vocalist Bob Allen and other members of the Kemp band were notice ably affected while making the record, played 21 "masters" before turning out one good enough to record. Few who listened to the Kemp recording for Brunswick or Paul Whiteman's for Victor or Henry King's for Decca failed to confess that...
Biggest music name in Fairbanks, Alaska is that of Robert M. Crawford, shortened to "Klondike Bob" by the sourdoughs who knew him 30 years ago. As a shaggy-haired lad of 7 he went among the miners passing his fur hat, singing In the Good Old Summer Time. As Bob Crawford grew up, he was more & more determined to make his way in the world. At 16, as a surveyor on the Alaska Railroad, he earned enough to get to Princeton where he paid his way by working in a Ford service station. At Princeton (Class of 1925) he made...
Third Varsity-stroke, Ed Simmons; 7, Peter Brooks; 6, Frank Maser; 5, Bob Watson; 4, Choate; 3, Radway; 2, Harry Locke; and bow, Dearborn. Whiteside will keep Reggie Kernan on hand with the rest of this boat to fill in possible vacancies...
From what has been seen so far, it seems that the Freshman squad which had an almost disastrous season during the winter will be bolstered in the field events by a pair of discus twirlers and a hammer thrower. Bob Scars has been taken in hand by Jaakko and has improved his form in the hammer considerably. Yesterday he was flinging it over his shoulder out toward the hundred-foot mark and gives promise of better things before the year is over...
...Bob Jones and Charley Dyer have been performing nobly with the discus...