Word: horned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cacciotti will conduct the group, which is composed of some of his freshman colleagues in the University Band. The German horn-blowers wish to perform for the freshmen during each Wednesday evening meal with programs of light classics...
...heyday of Dixieland and Prohibition, Chicago Gangster Dion O'Banion, the sparetime florist, used to stuff dollar bills in the bell of Muggsy's horn while he was playing. ("The more he stuffed, the sweeter the music got.") Like many another jazzbo, Muggsy drifted out of jazz into the bigger money. There were eight years with Ted Lewis' band-until "I just got tired of playing When My Baby Smiles at Me." As with many another jazzbo, there were spectacular years with John Barleycorn, until Muggsy wound up "dying" of a perforated ulcer in New Orleans...
...grizzled old Buddhist Wizard of Kalimpong specializes in freeing the struggling spirits of the dying. This he accomplishes by sticking a hollow tube down the dying man's throat to provide a spiritual exit; at the same time the Wizard toots a horn made of a human thigh bone. The Wizard might be thought eccentric elsewhere, but not in Kalimpong (pop. 8,800), a zany Indian town straddling a 4,000-foot ridge in the Himalayan foothills...
Quean & Old Maids. Whatever Fry's faults-and his exuberance bursts with faults, as with virtues-he has put both arms under poetry and bounced hef back on the stage. And the poetry he so manhandles is not a girl with short-cropped hair and horn-rimmed glasses, but a lively quean who can dance, weep and love, and values nothing so much as a warm heart and a glad eye. Writes the New York Times's Brooks Atkinson, noting Fry's faults as a dramatic technician: "Mr. Fry may be a little deficient in talent...
...McPartland Bix Beiderbecke once said, "He's the greatest white trumpet man in the world." Most of the Bixian refrain has gone from McPartland's horn now, and he has become more of a New York-dixicland musician. But, like Bix and unlike almost all others, he doesn't startle you with his music; he just plays it "awfully pretty" in a quiet...