Word: bands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...aircraft carrier Essex, and Ike watched that for a short time. All hands got a glimpse of fine old Navy tradition when Des Moines steamed past Britain's cruiser H.M.S. Tiger, the flagship of NATO Mediterranean Commander Admiral Sir Alexander Bingley. Tiger boomed a 21-gun salute, her band blared out The Star-Spangled Banner, Des Moines's band blasted back God Save the Queen, and Essex's band tootled out with When the Saints Go Marching...
...sublieutenant in His Majesty's army in 1917, and I can tell you that this production is even better." With that, he seated himself at a piano and ripped off half a dozen numbers from the show, and then tossed in Mac Namara's Band. Leaving the stage, he sat down to watch and loudly cheer Leave It to Jane - for the 30th time this year. All through the show there were tears in his eyes and bravos on his lips...
Beginning dismally, the varsity trailed, 17-9, at the ten minute mark, playing with little apparent concern and almost no rebounding. By contrast, the Huskies had brought an impromptu band along to cheer them in this cross-town rivalry...
Last month another mutineer, Lieut. Colonel AH Hamid, decided that destiny awaited him, and drove with his band into the Omdurman infantry barracks crying: "Here is the great officer Ali Hamid." This time President Abboud's patience was at an end. Last week Ali Hamid and four of his accomplices were hanged at Khartoum prison-the first casualties, after one year and 15 days, of the Middle East's gentlest revolution...
...which includes a frog, a perch, and a crayfish pickled in formaldehyde, and the Fleet Manufacturing Co.'s Chick-U-Bator, a two-egg plastic incubator. Other eye-catchers: Margarete Steiffs stuffed frogs, starfish and turtles for children's TV seats; Boombass Co.'s one-man band mounted on a bouncing stick (list price...