ASCAP and BMI thrust themselves directly into local affairs Friday night when their feud forced the Harvard band to revise its schedule and resort to Stephen Foster instead of Harvardiana.
It all came about because the Crimson-Dartmouth basketball game was being broadcast over the air. The band, which was playing at the game, appeared on the ether purely as an added feature, but that made no difference to the warring warblers.
Midway of the between-halves recital an excited technician rushed up to Thomas C. Peebles, manager of the band, and protested violently that he was being forced to turn the program off the air any time a Harvard tune was played. The musicians rose to the occasion with a snappy rendition of non-ASCAP "Old Black Joe."
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