With the football season came the weekends of the Big Game and the dance in the college gym or the local ballroom afterwards. The collegiate circuit, which had brought many a big-money dance band (Glen Gray, the late Glenn Miller) to the top, was in full swing. This season a new face, and a surprisingly young one, had cornered the market: 21-year-old Elliot Lawrence.
Last week Elliot Lawrence's fast-climbing band* played for the homecoming dance at the University of Michigan's Intramural Building. About 700 of the 3,400 students who showed up hovered admiringly around...
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