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...Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Harvard; Robert M. Green '02, Associate Professor of Applied Anatomy at Harvard; Seth T. Gane '07, Boston, secretary of the class of 1907 and former treasurer of Phi Beta Kappa; Jeffries Wyman Jr. '23 Associate Professor of zoology at Harvard; Mason Hammond '25, Assistant Professor of History and of Greek and Latin at Harvard; and George Is, Haskins '35, Junior Member of the Society of Fellows at Harvard...
What the concert did demonstrate is that the best U. S. Negro music is not all produced in Harlem and on Broadway, but that some of it comes from towns of the South and Middle West. From them the concert's manager, Swing Pundit John Hammond, had imported eleven hand-picked Negro musicians. Of these the most musically interesting were four lean, earnest-looking Negroes from Kinston, N. C., who call themselves Mitchell's Christian Singers...
...contest for the title of "proudest small town in America," judges awarded the prize to Cadiz, Ohio (pop., 2,597). Reason: it "has had more citizens of wide renown than any other community under ten thousand population." Some famed Cadizians: Critic Percy Hammond, Cinemactor Clark Gable, Robert P., Charles S. and Thomas A. Scott, inventors of ''the peach parer, the pea viner and the pea podder...
...years reserved, Harvard-bred New York Times Critic J. Brooks Atkinson wrote reviews as sober and dignified as a Times editorial. Atkinson left the pun-making and funmaking to such colleagues of those days as Heywood Broun, Alexander Woollcott, Percy Hammond, George Jean Nathan...
Captain: Charles P. Hammond...