Word: instruments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...longest race on drinking water" is no pleasure cruise for landlubbers; it has hazards enough of its own. Foul weather makes up out of nowhere, fog abounds, squalls are sharp and sudden. By playing those unpredictable elements shrewdly last week, Nicholas J. Geib, 39, a manufacturer of musical-instrument cases, brought home his nimble 39-ft. yawl Fleetwood through the Straits of Mackinac to lead the 63-ship fleet on corrected time of 40 hr. 10 min. 3 sec. (His actual time...
...near-capacity crowd poured into M.I.T.'s huge new Kresge Auditorium last night for an organ recital by E. Power Biggs. The three-manual Holtkamp organ has just recently been installed. It is designed along Classical rather than Romantic lines, with all the pipes unenclosed. The instrument speaks with great clarity, although some of the ranks of reed pipes are harsh and unevenly voiced. The Auditorium itself is truly an acoustical marvel...
...principle that the material welfare and progress of each member is vital to the well-being of every other. But we can, I think, do more . . . Each of us should name a special representative to join in preparing for us concrete recommendations for making our O.A.S. a more effective instrument in those fields of cooperative effort that affect the welfare of our peoples." Ike suggested "my brother Milton" (see EDUCATION) as the U.S. representative...
...soaks his hands and arms in hot water before he begins to play. His fussiness about pianos is legendary-once he insisted that the keyboard had to be lowered one twenty-fifth of an inch. He sings off key while he is playing. "The piano is basically a percussive instrument, and the performer must imitate the vocal inflection," Gould explains...
...stemming the Allied tide of bombers and fighters. Pampered "knights-of-the-air" with extra rations, flashy scarves and cock-of-the-walk manners, the pilots go up to drink the "black champagne" of death. Up in the "blue shell" of the sky with "the needles on the instrument panels as light as ghosts' tongues," the fighter pilots "hammer their woodpecker's tune, exact, refined and cruel," and they die. Civilians blunder into the nightmare at Janneby West like extras stumbling onstage at the wrong cue. A wife, summoned to her husband's funeral, finds...