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Last week a sudden order from the State Department sent six members of the American Legation at Helsinki flying off to Stockholm with their families. Left to carry on with one clerk, one telephone operator, was Charge d'Affaires Robert M. McClintock. Left to stew and wonder was Finland-at war with the Russians, bludgeoned by Germany, and now roundly rebuked...
...just 1,000 times what the first Waring orchestra drew down for its first engagement, in Tyrone, Pa., 21 years ago. Fred, 18, was then in Penn State, studying architecture and engineering. His younger brother Tom and the boy next door, a dark, antic trap-drummer named Poley McClintock, had a two-piece piano & drums outfit that used to pick up occasional pin money playing for Victory dances, etc. They invited Fred, a violinist who preferred the banjo to join in. Another banjoist, Fred Buck, joined too. Four-strong, they barnstormed Pennsylvania's busy mining district, picked...
Nowadays the bustling Waring organization occupies a full floor on Broadway, where Fred holds sway like a master of ceremonies. Only other active member of the original four is Poley McClintock, who more than any other member has made the Waring band memorable, by his froggy-voiced interpolations. Fred Buck is dead. Tom Waring is still considered one of the gang but spends most of his time practicing for a debut as a concert baritone. Fred directs production, helps write continuity, coaches the gang in rehearsal ("come lively," "stay with me," "give it rapture!"), plays golf...
...June 1937, the Foundation has thus far spent $1,250,000, parceling out money to groups best equipped to administer its program. Chief contributor to the National Safety Council, which educates the public, the Foundation also helps the traffic engineering research of men like Yale's Miller McClintock, the personnel-training of Northwestern's Traffic Safety Institute...
...personnel of the band includes Poley McClintock, the frog voice drummer, and the MacFarland twins, saxaphonists and hecklers while Scotty Bates provides additional comedy...