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...sample record made in Richmond, Va., the unmistakable sounds of home set the scene-the chimes of St. Paul's church, the yelp of a newsboy, the tapping of tall heels, the clack-clack-clack of traffic over the Ninth Street Bridge. Neatly interlarded are remembered voices telling of remembered places, and quiet-spoken promises...
...Manhattan newsroom, Broadcaster Bob Trout roamed about with a portable microphone for seven hours, reading rapid-fire dispatches as they clacked in, letting his listeners hear the clack of the tickers, the excited shuffling of chairs...
Varsity tennis captain Jim Jenkins and Don Daniels led the way into the semi-finals of the University Tennis Tournament which has been going along clickoty-clack under the persistent prompting of Coach Jack Barnaby...
...Good lived for many years in South Cameroons, West Africa as a Presbyterian missionary. Drum thumping is as familiar to him as the clack of a telegraph key. An ordinary drum, he says, can be heard three or four miles by day, ten or 15 miles at night. "I know of one exceptional drum that has been heard 25 miles, though its messages could no longer be understood...
...Music. Even tone-deaf people can identify Latin American dance music. Its earmark is a varied assortment of strange drums, dried vegetables, bits of wood, which can produce sound combinations as fascinating as static in a transatlantic broadcast, rhythms more intriguing than the clickety-clack of a 60-mile-an-hour express. Samba music is no exception. It has its own Brazilian instruments; some tick off a steady one-two-one-two, others counter with a galloping rhythm...