Word: horned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bearskin Bonus. Other U.S. big-game animals give a sterner test to the hunter's skill and endurance. Hunting moose requires long treks into the wilderness of northern Maine, Minnesota, Montana and Wyoming, and hours of expert calling (with a birchbark horn) to lure the big animals into rifle range. The elk, prized for antlers that often rise 5 ft. over its head, have retreated from the plains into the rugged western mountain ranges. Last year 52,000 elk were bagged by hunters who made the extra effort to go after them...
Although J. S. Bach did not indicate the instrumentation for his monumental Art of the Fugue, he would no doubt have been surprised to hear his opening fugue played by two trumpets, French horn, euphonium, trombone, and sousaphone. More appropriate to the group, and receiving a better performance, was a group of pieces by Johann Pezel, an early German composer of brass music for town bands. Although it was a pleasure to hear these seldom performed works, the group played with more gusto than polish...
Basic Equipment. In Worthington, Ohio, after he sideswiped a truck, cracked into four trees, knocked down a telephone guy wire, tore off a length of fence and crunched to a stop against the concrete steps of a house, Vincent E. Greene, 22, explained: "My horn got stuck...
Private Life. After retirement, lived modestly in a Buenos Aires suburb swung an occasional business deal to supplement his pension. Father of three sons (one a U.S.-trained engineer), two daughters. With slightly stooped shoulders and horn-rimmed reading glasses, looks more like a professor than a general when in mufti...
This was as much a surprise to McCurdy as the opposition for the varsity coach--in his fourth year as grand strategist--had figured on using his veteran runners to break up the one-two punch of Horn and Bill Lepkowski, UMass' second best runner, who eventually placed sixth...