Word: carillons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...acre campus for Durham's Trinity College (provided it changed the name to Duke). He wanted the architecture to be Gothic ("I've seen the Princeton buildings. They appeal to me"). He ordered a huge chapel with 77 stained-glass windows, a 50-bell carillon, and a tower modeled after one at Canterbury. He wanted schools of medicine, law and divinity. He planned a hospital with 416 beds, a stadium big enough for 35,000 spectators, a student union complete with the latest potato-peeling and dish-washing machines...
...most famous bells in the college are rarely heard these days. The seventeen-bell Russian carillon, or zvon, which hangs in the tower of Lowell House was the gift of Charles R. Crane. It was brought from the USSR in 1931, accompanied by a carillon expert who started to perform immediately. Since the architects who designed Lowell House had not counted on a zvon, the seventeen iron lungs shook and reverberated through the new structure so much that the residents, now known as Bellboys, erupted into the courtyard, banging pots and pans every time the expert let go. The musician...
...Russian bells, or zvon, are a delight to lovers of carillon music. Back in 1931, a Russian expert was sent along with the bells to aid in their intallation. A suspicious man, he was continually afraid that his food was being poisoned. After a minor illness he was finally shipped back to the U.S.S.R. when a Stillman nurse discovered him drinking a bottle of ink for breakfast...
...bells of the church carillon pealed, 400 swarthy fishermen in their Sunday best, followed by a score of clergy, made their way from the church to the fish pier. Archbishop Richard J. Gushing of Boston, in scarlet, purple and gold vestments, mounted a flag-decked platform facing the 24 draggers tied up together, with pennants fluttering in a stiff breeze. In his stentorian voice, which made the giant loudspeakers superfluous, the Archbishop said...
...beach at Dieppe in August 1942. British tanks clanked over the Somme where in September, 28 years before, the first tank had straddled a German trench. Five years to the day after Britain's declaration of war on Nazi Germany, Tommies were greeted at Arras by the carillon of the 16th-Century Hotel de Ville. The bells rang out God Save the King. Brussels was liberated well ahead of schedule. Dunkirk, of proud and awful memory, was on the Canadians' list...