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Show 1 r . r K ,!: , , ? H .: : . i """ -ii . ii .,,nirrn'iii j,.nmfty. , . ,,- . -m,,,,- ;. am nm warn I No matter what hap-ns hap-ns to the local football nan o" W Saturday afternoon this , one organization on the field ji jure to come out on ,he right end of the score. That will be the band. A college bands-non bands-non is made, not born. His career usually starts ;n a grade-school class, like the one above, where he learns to play his instrument as part 0f his regular school work. By the time he reaches college age he is usually a good musician. musi-cian. At right a clarinetist clar-inetist and an oboist, members of the University Univer-sity of Michigan band, practice for a concert. The girl is a member of ' the school's concert band but not the marching 1 . I unit, c I wmm iipg?i.iii ill ipy ft Ct i V if ' ..- . .... . , fe; :. m V -.y ": : - '' : ... ' '' , ..- -n j-'ttti'wMlfrlt&wWI : mm O Today's college bands are big enterprises, enter-prises, often surpassing in manpower and equipment equip-ment the football teams they consort with. But larger still are the concert con-cert bands. At left two members of the University Univer-sity of Michigan band go over the score for a performance. per-formance. Football games draw much of their color and showmanship from the marching bands. , G All is not music and "torching for the college : bond. Trips with the foot-: foot-: boll team are high points ' their school year. At "9ht the Michigan band o'tends a banquet in Chi-: Chi-: "9, puts on pseudo ; Northwestern helmets-: helmets-: joins in pre-game 1 I'"" at the morrow's Sadiron opponent. Precision Pre-cision marching and 1 rilling formations go ol"g with the stirring !"sic of the college band '" hundreds of college , radio every autumn -end. Below the Michigan band denotes Mot love is'in the air with ""arrow-pierced heart. It s accuracy and timing like this that will provide o'M'me entertainment w games this fall. I .,M1I a.,,,,,,- -.J&fel'qtttM AifiaU. Waaad Jis. . " .. ' - """"""" ' |