Word: jacks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President Niles Trammell had a job of explaining to do. In recent months, CBS had charmed away five of his top attractions (Jack Benny, Amos 'n' Andy, Red Skelton, Frank Sinatra, Edgar Bergen), beat him to a big sixth (Bing Crosby). NBC had lost talent to Columbia before, but never in such great clumps. The network's 164 affiliated stations were uneasy and fidgety...
...thing was sure: all of the orchestra's 90 players had been fired. But, said both Orchestra Personnel Manager Karl Chase and Union President Jack Ferentz, that was just a routine matter. Under their complicated agreement, as long as no master contract had been signed for next season, the orchestra was obliged to make all the musicians free agents. That gave the men a chance to find new jobs if they wanted to, and the orchestra a chance to make replacements. The joker: in the past, the musicians had been warned in advance that the firing was a mere...
...discussion was led by Jack Gurveyan '50, an independent and president of the glee club. He suggested a ban on campus drinking. Joe Paterno '50, co-captain of the Bruin football team and a DKE, led the opposition. "We can't turn Brown into a seminary," he said...
...preceding 175 pound class bout, Phil Isenberg of Winthrop took on Jack Frazer of Dunster House. Knocked down three times, Frazer earned the applause of the crowd when the referee finally forced him to quit in the third round, against his will...
Priddy is confident of his defenses. Goalie Ted Cook, whose Saturday net tending stunted the BU scoring, will again be around to frustrate BC's potential scorers. Priddy feels that practice has improved Captain Dusty Burke's timing and that his other defensemen, Bill Bliss, Jack Donelan, and Jim Wykoff are in better shape to crack the well-balanced BC lines...