Word: accordion
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...Radio Saigon is the most puzzling station heard in Chungking. Its puppet personnel seem unable to decide what side they are on-especially since the Second Front in Normandy. The voice of one announcer, Jacques Chateau, "reminds you of an accordion . . . full of mashed potatoes." Another specialty is a comedy team called Jack and Jane, who "are forever knocking themselves out laughing at their own material...
Occasionally, when someone chooses the "music" category Phil Baker plays the accordion with which he rose to fame. But nowadays he does most of his accordion playing at home...
...also plays at least 15 musical and questionable instruments, to wit: banjo, fiddle, guitar, French harp, tenor guitar, ukulele, trumpet, accordion, piano, twelve-string guitars, Jew's-harp, dulcimer, five-string banjo, hand saw, rubber gloves, "and a tune I makes by just slopping against my cheeks with my hands." Tobalcker & Opry. How she acquired these abilities is something of a mystery, even to Cousin Emmy. She was born, next youngest of eight children, 12 miles from the nearest railroad at Lamb, Ky.-the family lived in a two-room log cabin which "had cracks between the walls...
...munching raisins sat his chief tax expert, small, dun-colored Randolph Paul. Now & then they both drank water from a cone of paper cups piled beside a big water jug, while a battery of grey young Treasury experts, without benefit of raisins and water, periodically scrabbled for documents in accordion-sized brief cases. Morgenthau & Co. needed their vitamins: they had been up most of the night before, putting the finishing touches on the Treasury's recommendations for the 1944 tax bill. They had missed their breakfasts...
Engaged. Gunder (the Wunder) Hägg, 24, Swedish snatcher of the U.S. outdoor mile record (at 4:05.3); and Dorothy Nortier, 19, blonde attraction of her father's Piedmont, Calif, restaurant; four weeks after Gunder sailed home. He met her when she played the accordion at a Swedish reception given for him in San Francisco...