Word: springing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Elsewhere, Franklin D. Roosevelt '04, candidate for governor of New York, spoke in the Union, was later swept into the Albany State House, and returned to the Yard in the spring to deliver the Phi Beta Kappa oration. Herbert Hoover was not so generous with his time; he was able to speak for only a few minutes on his way through the Square, but, in a CRIMSON-sponsored poll of the University, he was found to be the most popular candidate among Harvard men anyway...
...Spring, through it did not feel like it, was not too far away, and plans were already being made for Jubilee. Charles Cunningham was chosen to head the committee to prepare the festival rites, while Joseph Collins was to head the Smoker. Winter sports were winding up, and the undefeated hockey team dropped its last meet to Yale, 1 to 0; Smith Halls captured the interdormitory winter title; and a large number of freshmen wandered out to Soldiers Field for spring football practice...
...Spring had finally really arrived, and at various places around the Square and the Yard it was beginning to show. Passing the Music Box record shop on Holyoke Street, one could see two Harvard men sit down before a phonograph and begin to listen to all the 5000 records in the store. The one who went to sleep first lost, but got $10 anyway; the winner received $25. Paramount and M-G-M sent news cameramen and Fox Movietone was reported to be interested in recording the event...
...Wonderful World (Barbara Carroll Trio; RCA Victor). A wide-ranging sampler of one of the most imaginative jazz pianists going, with selections ranging from the strutting, heavily accented No Moon at All to a feather-soft brush-over of Rodgers' and Hart's Spring Is Here. The whole is marked by a lively, note-clear touch and a beat that shifts and slides with the mood...
...predicted by the industry, and later dropped to 6,000,000. General Motors' President Harlow S. Curtice was even blunter. Sales in 1957 should match 1956, he said, but the year "has not measured up to the industry's expectations. For the second successive year the historical spring rise in sales has failed to materialize...