Word: mud
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...staff of researchers can come up with answers to make John Kieran chew his nails. You can feed congressmen, governors, the FBI, even F.D.R. with the most esoteric dope. You can swing public opinion and sway private enterprise, but dammit all, TIME, when you print an article like "From Mud to Melody"* you are showing us your soul...
Teddy set up shop in a bamboo-and-mud hut next to the Press Hostel's kitchens (he says it had the biggest cockroaches in town until it burned down last year), but he spent much of his time getting out to see for himself what was going on. For example, he was the first white man in 15 years to go into parts of Shansi province and come back alive. To get there he flew from Chungking to Sian (400 miles, five hours), went on by train to the Yellow River (70 miles, five days, one wreck...
...states rivers settled back into their banks. The dead: 21. The homeless: 50,000 families (160,000 people). The damage: 2,000,000 seeded acres-in Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas and Oklahoma-rain-soaked, mud-packed...
...Despite his Bronko Nagurski bulk, Gonsalves has the nimbleness of a Red Grange. At dribbling, volleying, jumping and tackling (snaring a ball from an opponent by clever footwork), he can match his stringier colleagues. At heading, too, Gonsalves has no peer. He butts with prodigious accuracy, has headed a mud-heavy ball smack into...
Greatest of these is unquestionably Ocarinist Bernie Ladd, who manufactures his own carefully tuned instruments and plays solos with Andre Kostelanetz' radio orchestra. Like most serious musicians, Ocarinist Ladd is a stanch traditionalist and prefers mud to plastic. He regards the U.S. Army's new unbreakable ocarinas as newfangled gadgets unworthy of a master's breath...