Word: dodd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Piano Tuner O. J. Dodd told fellow delegates to the National Piano Tuners' convention in Kansas City that rock 'n' roll is raising hob with the nation's keyboards. For the first time in his long professional career, he said, he had seen a piano's thick bass chord snapped by a pianist flailing out a thundering rock-'n'-roll chorus...
...LONG NIGHT, by Martin Caldin (242 pp.; Dodd, Mead; $3), drops a fictional atom bomb on a U.S. industrial town and morbidly watches the gory disaster work itself out. World War III comes to Harrington, U.S.A. with a touch of abracadabra-jabber at the air defense control towers: "Three. Multimotor. Low. One minute. Alpha Quebec Two Four Green . . ." This means enemy bombers. Author Caidin, a science writer, observes the beginning of the cataclysm through the little eyes of Henry Thompson, a jelly-spined civil defense map plotter who is quivering in his movie seat when the warning sirens sound...
...fund-raising drive for the new building started almost a year ago, according to Advocate president Eugene S. Dodd '56, when he went to New York and told the trustees of the "urgent need for better facilities." Almost all the money came from graduate editors, although the undergraduate board aided the fund by sponsoring two readings here by T. S. Eliot and e.e. cumming...
...building will probably contain six small offices, a club room, library, bar, and kitchen, Dodd said. One alumnus, he noted, has already given enough mahogany to panel the entire club room...
...Dodd attacked the Ford Foundation for its "dubious staff and its support of Communism and socialist propaganda." One witness, sympathetically questioned by the chairman, attacked the Kinsey Report, financed by a foundation grant, as a force for weakening American morals, and another criticized Gunnar Myrdal's book "An American Dilemma" because it saw too much that is shoddy in our society...