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Variation on a Theme. To avoid confusion in identity, many a newborn Pubniconian gets a name of his own with his father's first name tacked on. Example: Allan, son of Brad d'Entremont, is called Allan-a-Brad. Even so, confusions are numerous. Postmistress Annie d'Entremont, with a letter to be delivered to William A. d'Entremont, can usually tell which of four such Williams should get it, but only by examining the handwriting on it, or noting the identity of the sender...
...jazz spot in pre-war Boston was the old Theatrical Club, corner of Warrenton and Tremont, where beginning in 1937 after-hour highballs were served to the accompaniment of Bobby Hackett's band. The "real" jazz school might claim that an instrumentation of two tenors, even though abetted by Brad Gowns' slide trombone and Hackett's horn, wasn't conducive to good music--but, then, the liquor wasn't too good, either...
...Beta Kappa elected six honorary members of the Harvard Chapter at, its meeting: Robert F. Brad ford, Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts: John H. Bradley, of Lowell, a geologist, author, and former Associate professor of Geology at the University of Southern California; Starting Dow, associate professor of History at Harvard; Edward V. Huntington, professor of Mathematics, emeritus, at Harvard; Nathan M. Pusey, President of Lawrence College, Appleton, Wisconsin; and Wallace Steven, of Hartford, a lawyer and poet
Outweighed as a team by six pounds per man, the Crimson are faced by an eleven that contains several former college stars. Brad Winans, ex-Dartmouth lineman, holds down the blocking back post for the Tuftsmen, and all of the other positions are held by men who have never before appeared in a starting lineup for the Jumbos...
...band follows the original organization's work closely, and Brad, who know the ODJB records by heart and emulous clarinetist Larry Shields, has re-scored many of the old arrangements used for the old records. Several of these have been transcribed for radio stations and for V-Dises to be sent to troops oversees...