Word: harman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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That was the year that the then Lord of Lundy, Martin Coles Harman, who had bought the island for $80,000, was ignominiously charged by Britain with violating the Coinage Act. In 1929 he had begun issuing his own stamps, his own puffin and half-puffin coins, and putting his own face on the front of the coins instead of that of George V. After the trial Harman was forced to withdraw his puffins and to have British stamps on Lundy mail along with his own. But the puffins remain profitable tourist items, and neither Martin Harman...
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...York and hear premieres of much of the best modern music in the U.S. But now original works are being played in so many places throughout the country that no critic can get to all of them to form his own musical judgment. TIME'S Music Editor Carter Harman, himself a composer of modern music, has found an electronic solution. By asking TIME'S correspondents to arrange for high-fidelity tape recordings of the concerts, he can sit in his acoustically draped office and hear true reproductions of the music on TIME...
...this week's report on rhythmical Trinidad (see Music), however, Harman took his ear directly to the source. From predawn, when a rooster, the only unmusical creature he heard on the island, awoke him, he roamed the carnival-crowded streets of Port-of-Spain to hear such exotic instruments as steel drums, bongos and bamboo tamboo. In a hidden grove of palms, he even heard a bootleg concert of the long-banned jungle drums. One night at Port-of-Spain's Little Carib Theater the island's wild and inexorable rhythms got to Harman. Like everybody else...
...Margarita, freshman football coach, will be with the Crimson for at least another year, it was learned yesterday. Margarita was previously being considered for appointment as head coach at Rutgers, where he would have replaced Harvey Harman, ousted last November after a 3-5 season...