Word: cornet
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...Eagle Brass Band which paraded for festivals and funerals. In recent years Bechet has made many great jazz records with special studio bands and only last month he appeared as features star on Esquire's coast-to-coast jazz broadcast over the Blue Network. Bunk Johnson on cornet also played in the old Eagle Band, and by 1914 hen Bechet joined him he was already an old timer, having performed with King Bolden's Band...
...devoting the proceeds to helping out deserving caddies. Since 1930, 55 bag-toters, chosen on their records as caddies and students, have received free tuition at Northwestern University on Chick Evans Scholarships. No. 56 is wiry, 17-year-old Daniel Schneider. At high school he played: 1) a cornet; 2) a leading part in scholastic forums and debates; 3) below-90 golf. He enrolls at Northwestern this week...
...indigenous to the Long Island landscape as the oil wells atop Signal Hill. A man who started as an infant-prodigy cornetist and went on to conduct radio's Lucky Strike dance orchestra, Rolfe took over the Long Beach Band last year when its founder, an oldtime Sousa (cornet) soloist named Herbert Lincoln Clarke, decided to retire...
...Amber Charles Davidson, 17, a stocky, curly-haired Mormon farm boy of Fort Bridger, Wyo. Besides running his father's farm (his father runs a garage), Amber paints, plays the cornet, is light-heavyweight boxing champion of Bridger Valley, captained his high-school (Lyman Seminary) football team. A self-taught scientist, he began to put motors together at six, now has a departmentalized one-man laboratory with separate booths for research in electronics, photography, radio, lens grinding, chemistry, astronomy, biology. He has built a radio-controlled boat, is working on two projects in which he thinks the Army...
...Strike a New Note Field is one minute rolling up laughs as a cockney cornet player ("a weedy little buffer . . . half a bully and half a cringer"), the next minute as a suave, Oxford-bred musician who performs on a ramshackle glockenspiel. As a poetry-spouting drunk, he garnishes a skit that contains the show's other drawing card, London's best-known bottle-hymn, I'm Going to Get Lit-Up When the Lights Go Up in London...