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...surprise action split Cao Daism wide open. Rival factions began feuding with each other in nightly sprees of shooting, kidnaping and plundering. The imprisoned pope often interrupted his daily mandolin strumming and xylophone banging to pray for the dead. Meanwhile, rivalry between the pope and his disaffected general to win the favor of the faithful went on apace. Last week General Phuong tipped the scales by collecting certified letters from 19 vestal virgins of Cao Dai complaining that the pope had raped them. He then called a congress of the Cao Dai hierarchy to consider the complaints. Three days before...
...Giant Mandolin. At 4 a.m. one day last week, the streets of Port-of-Spain were quiet, but an occasional lighted window showed dark figures stirring. At 5, donkey carts laden with coconuts were moving towards the market, passing sidewalks packed with quiet crowds. Finally, a clock chimed 6, and, as if unleashed, the crowds ran and danced out into the streets. Trinidad's Carnival was under...
Before the note of the chime had faded, the sound of a steelband grew in the distance. It was a sweet thrumming that, as it grew closer, began to resemble a giant mandolin playing a pretty tune. It was accompanied by an insistent clanging, like a syncopated firebell. Within a few minutes no fewer than 139 steelbands burst onto Port-of-Spain's streets, gathering prancing followers as they went. The marchers strode, sensuously, with bent knees and swinging hips, sometimes six or eight clasped together in a veering line, sometimes a single marcher so excited by the music...
...sister Elizabeth. In her account of his youth, he seems a little like Frank Merriwell. Adlai could swim across large lakes (two miles in the creditable time of 1 hr. 16 min. 21 sec.), climb a Swiss mountain quicker than almost anyone (so the guide said), and play the mandolin. In her diary his sister recorded: "Today the girls [at camp] saw Adlai!! Tonight one of the girls fainted...
...started going on and on in 1919, with considerably less band, but just as much chance--and spirit. When the first band, an offspring of the University's Banjo and Mandolin Club, developed a lack of clarinets, director and organizer Frederick L. Reynolds '20 wasn't long stymied. He borrowed violins from the dance orchestra to play the missing parts. The stringed additions brought the membership to 45 men. But even by 1929, when there were 60 regular players, improvisation was sometimes necessary. The late Malcolm (Mal) H. Holmes '28, beloved conductor of the band, was pressed into service...