Palm Springs Life
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Immediately after graduation from law school, Hoagy moved to Palm Springs to study law. When he failed the bar exam in Florida he lost his job and returned to Bloomington to play music with his old friends. Hoagy is seen here sitting on the front bumper of a car, and the inscription on the photo reads "The Goat himself in Palm Beach."
This file appears in: Maxwell Hall, Indiana University
Maxwell Hall, Indiana University
Hoagy attended Indiana University from 1920-1926. His mother and grandmother encouraged him to study law as a more practical and reliable career than music. Hoagy obliged, but as a student at IU he put most of his time and energy into playing at…