Word: ness
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...pianist, Ferdie Grofe, a brilliant technical musician, helped him greatly toward fame by his skilful arrangements of current songs. Whiteman himself can tell little about a composition from reading it; he puts in most of his own touches in re hearsal. Famed in the trade for his busi ness acumen, he hires the best and most expensive players, keeps them in a good humor. He paid his former saxophonist, Ross Gorman, $50,000 a year. His own earnings are about $500,000 a year. He likes striped ties and custard, owns a ranch near Denver, likes to wear...
Chairman A. O. Brooks '33 of the Business Board announced that although the work of this department has not yet been finished the following seven men have been accepted: Hamilton Brown '33, G. B. Van Ness '33, D. H. Morse '33, R. H. Amberg '33, W. F. Wolff '33, D. J. Zinn '33, and F. S. Young...
...conventional twelve-tone scale (in the keyboard the seven white full tones and the five black half tones). With the help of one George L. Weitz and the Baldwin Piano Co. he in vented a quarter-tone instrument which has a second keyboard, is double the thick ness of the standard piano, has to be played from an extra high stool. He wrote music for it (North Wind, Shadows of a Cathe dral, Shadows of a Spanish Dancer) , devising a system of notation in which raised quarter tones were signified by a sharp-like figure with one vertical crossbar...
...Yale Record," whose province it is to satirize things academic, has just issued a "House Planner's Number." Yale, it will be recalled, has lately decided to follow Harvard's lead in dividing its large undergraduate body into residential groups and has accepted a munificent gift from Mr. Hark ness for the purpose. Presumably the jibes of "The Record" represent the opposition to the innovation of a large section of undergraduate, opinion...
...Harvard I expected to find a certain dignified aloofness, as different from Oklahoma's "howdy-ness" as is a Boston debutante from an Osage maiden...