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...eight-piece band, Aces of Rhythm. So he hooked his drums to a quarter-horsepower electric motor. A rotating wheel swatted the cymbals; a clutch and gear shift changed the tempo from foxtrot to waltz. The boys in the band unanimously agreed that the mechanical Krupa "sounded like hell." But most of the dancers in the small Minnesota and South Dakota towns were willing to settle for a steady beat. Its strongest champion is the proprietor of the Lyon County (Minn.) dance pavilion, where the band plays Friday nights. Said he last week: "The electric drum doesn't drink...
...banjo hitter he, our Gold Coast Gehringer slapped out screaming line drives with which he interspersed sparkling gems of fielding prowess. Amidst the plaudits of his teammates, he cried, "For God, for country, and for Adams." "Adams, Hell, We're From Winthrop House." He leaves for Mexico City tomorrow...
...Last year Banker Giannini decided that his personal fortune was too big. He hurriedly put $500,000 of it into a fund for bank training and medical research. His explanation: "Hell, why should a man pile up a lot of goddamned money for somebody else to spend after he's gone?" His estimate of his wealth today: between...
...After breakfast, I trudge up the hill wondering how I can bear to face the brats, racking my overwrought brain as to how I can keep each class busy throughout the long, long day. Every evening I come home full of wonderful stories, some funny, some sad as hell, and filled with new ideas on how to get an idea into the poor little heads. Then, after dishes, I start to work on next day's plans. At 10, or more frequently midnight, I creep to bed like a licked cur, only to dream of teaching. How I hate...
After the Great Exodus of the spring of '43 (when the future was viewed in terms of khaki and navy blue and what-the-hell), it got so quiet in the, little redbrick building on the one-way cowpath, 14 Plympton Street, you could hear a split-infinitive drop. Most of the Crimeds had gone off to the wars, leaving behind them something they'd started as a weekly to serve naval and military personnel, something they now hoped whole be able to publish the news of the whole University twice a week; something called the Harvard Service News...