Word: funerall
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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"In New Orleans, it was. And nobody made much money at first, especially the band men; the only musicians that made real money was the piano players; the other fellers lot o' times they'd work for a dollar a night-maybe a funeral procession would be two dollars-two...
Died. Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, 69, Indian Minister of Education, Natural Resources and Scientific Research, Jeader in his country's independence movement, intimate of Gandhi and Nehru, scholar; of a stroke; in New Delhi. At the Moslem service for the Mecca-born philosopherstatesman (with about 100,000 mourners, the...
"You should ship Carl Rowan to Russia," a small-town attorney angrily urged the Minneapolis Tribune (circ. 212,873). The Tribune's prizewinning Reporter Rowan (TIME, March 4) was raising tempers all over Minnesota last week. When somebody invited him to make a speech in one rural community, the...
The rumpus over the Tribune's 32-year-old Negro star arose from an explosive, eleven-part series reporting that funeral bells are in fact tolling for whole communities throughout predominantly agricultural Minnesota. Assigned to look into economic and social conditions in depressed farm towns, Rowan returned from a...
One of The Union's virtues is the seldom-heard Civil War music it saves from obscurity, e.g., Abraham Lincoln's Funeral March, a moving piece by an otherwise unknown composer, William Wolsieffer. The score is dedicated to Composer Bales's grandfather, a Union captain, but at...