Word: instrumentations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Once a Musicians' Union man was asked if a harmonica was a musical instrument. "Certainly not," he answered. "It's a toy." But what about Larry Adler? "Oh." said the union man, "he's a freak...
Peking's chosen instrument, Pridi Phanomyong, is of notably nationalist-not Communist-background. In 1932 he helped Phibun set up Thailand's popular constitutional monarchy. He was named rector of Bangkok's respected University of Moral and Political Sciences. During World War II, Pridi led Thailand's underground resistance against the Japanese while Phibun was comfortably presiding over his country's Japanese puppet government (which declared...
...aided by Hollywood's alert pressagents, out to defend their clients' stock in trade: "I am not built for any kind of boy's fashions, so why should I wear them?" said Mrs. Joe DiMaggio. TV's robustious Dagmar went on record: "Frankly, honey, the instrument hasn't been made that can flatten me out." Growled Marlon Brando ungallantly: "Emphasizing women's hips is like putting falsies...
...conference of the International Council of Scientific Unions in London, Sterling P. Newberry of the General Electric Co. last week told about the invention of an instrument that scientists have coveted for years. It is a new X-ray microscope, developed by Newberry and Selby E. Summers at the G.E. laboratory in Schenectady...
According to Newberry, the new instrument will permit biologists, for the first time, to examine microscopically the interiors of such small living organisms as fruit flies and germinating seeds. It will aid the study of the internal fine structure of metals, paints, plastics and other materials. In medicine, it will enable pathologists to study small-scale ailments such as tooth decay and hardening of the arteries...