Word: gifford
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Back in the days when the Crimson Stompers were getting organized, they held their practice jam sessions down on Coolidge Hill Road behind Stillman Infirmary at the home of Charles H. Taylor, professor of History. And they had a cornetist sitting in with the band whose playing Walter H. Gifford, Jr. '52, drummer and manager of the group, describes as a "mean cornet a la Max Kaminsky." The horn-player's name was Sargent Kennedy '28, Registrar of Harvard College...
During the summer of 1948, Gifford went to a musicians' hangout in his home town of Washington, D. C., and met a heavy dark-haired young trombonist-pianist named Laurence J. Eanet '52. It didn't take long for them to discover two important facts about each other--that they were both starting at Harvard as freshmen that fall, and that they both loved Dixieland jazz...
They used to go down to Taylor's home evenings and shake the house with their practice sessions. "The Taylors' was a proving ground for our band," Gifford explains. "We really started to play well in ensemble there." During this period Kennedy enjoyed going to the house at night to sit with the boys...
...Republican for Truman. To fill ailing Lew Douglas' shoes, Harry Truman last week picked an envoy of another sort. Quiet, retiring, 65-year-old Walter Sherman Gifford, a Yankee Republican, began his career as a $10-a-week clerk in Western Electric, by a knack for figures and a passion for efficiency, rose to the eminence of chairman of the board of American Telephone & Telegraph, from which he retired last December. His appointment underlined two facts: in some quarters, diplomacy is less politics than big business; Mr. Truman once again had rejected a political appointment for one that would...
During World War I Gifford was secretary of the Inter-Allied Munitions Council in Paris. He directed President Roosevelt's organization on unemployment relief...