Word: musick
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...everyone was as busy as a bridesmaid, preparing to marry off the Princess this month. Each one had his own job. Dr. William McKie, the organist at Westminster Abbey, had a special motet to compose for the ceremony. Sir Arnold Bax, Master of the King's Musick, was working out three trumpet fanfares. Painters were sprucing up Buckingham Palace, which still showed the ravages of war. Electricians were studying ways & means to bathe The Mall with light on the great night...
...other airmen might still equal the mark, but they would have to fly hard & fast to catch up with 49-year-old Robert Oliver Daniel Sullivan, who last week was still doing more ocean traveling than any other man. Successor to the late, great Ed Musick as Pan Am's No. 1 pilot, he had piled up his record on the Atlantic since 1939. He has crossed the Pacific 55 times...
...London, Sir Arnold Trevor Bax, 58, was appointed Master of the King's Musick, the 21st in an unbroken line since Charles II re-established the post in 1660. Famed as a poetic Neo-Celt composer, Sir Arnold has. never been obliged to earn his living, has never held any office before. His new job, the musical equivalent of Poet Laureate, has been a sinecure since Edward VII abolished State concerts...
...Musick, had killed Musick's 19-year-old son, asleep in bed. He remembers how Elmon Middleton, a Harlan County prosecuting attorney who vowed he was going to crusade for miners' rights, stepped on his automobile starter one day and went up in a horrendous splash of steel, flesh and dynamite. He remembers how he himself had been besieged in a Harlan hotel by deputy sheriffs who were determined to run him out of town...
...Other recipients: Wiley Post, Amelia Earhart, Edwin C. Musick, Charles A. Lindbergh, Howard Hughes...