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...bassoon what a double bass (bass viol) is to the cello. In its long evolution since Handel wrote for it, it has changed from a vague resemblance to a child's coffin to a strong resemblance to an overcomplicated vacuum cleaner. Its 20-odd feet of wooden tubing are capable of emitting the lowest-sounds known to orchestral music-lower than any at the left end of a piano keyboard. To everybody but a contrabassoonist, its Stygian burps sound like abysmal Bronx cheers...
...hand." The men of the 2nd found that the Germans, who in 1942 could still afford gallant gestures, had honored the brave Canadian dead. They had been buried in a special cemetery, on high ground out side the port, and the caretaker said that the Germans had ordered a coffin for every one, which is more than a soldier expects...
From a truck men brought six plain wood coffins. As the coffin nails were driven in, the crowd shouted over the dead bodies: "Sauvages! Salauds!" ("Beasts! Scum...
Souvenirs. In Cincinnati, Mrs. Lena Coffin won, along with her divorce, $5,500 in war bonds and the custody of a carnival exhibit-a two-headed baby preserved in alcohol...
...Seine but it was a question whether the Seventh Army could reach the Seine. The tattered Seventh might wriggle out of its corridor but the roads all the way back to the Seine were being strafed, and the bridges across it had been bombed out. In a coffin-shaped area roughly outlined by the Seine, Falaise, Argentan and ancient fivreux, Eisenhower had a chance of destroying the entire Seventh Army...