Word: organ
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Congressmen who are "conditioned" with the exploded idea that neutral and isolated nations are safe, seem to have the cerebral cells in their thinking organ blacked out. These men seize upon Rear Admiral Land's statement that only eight ships were "reported" to be lost that sailed from American ports, distort the true significance of the words and argue that there is no need to requisition ships for aid to Britain...
This week CBS presents a radio play written around an instrument on which millions of small boys make the air horrible-a mouth organ. This harmonica is tootled with utmost purity by Larry Adler, at 27 the world's greatest harmonicist. Soon The Bronx Symphony Orchestra, 70-piece group which has been rehearsing for months, will play with Larry Adler as harmonica artist. He will blow, note for note, the solo part of a classic concerto originally written for the violin, Vivaldi's A Minor. For Virtuoso Adler, such symphonic antics are nothing new. Nor do most people...
Harmonicist Adler, by adroit sucking and blowing, along with skillful finger work, can make his mouth organ sound like a violin, oboe, French horn, trumpet. In this week's CBS show-Lip Service, on Norman Corwin's Workshop hour-he is an appallingly corny hillbilly who imitates the sounds of a train, swings part of a Mozart violin sonata, plays Bach and variations on Turkey in the Straw...
Until recently, Larry Adler had not learned to read music. Of his ways with the mouth organ, he says adroitly: "I think it the way I want to hear it, and it comes out that...
...kind of odd jobs. In this war chaplains can concentrate on spiritual work, and, instead of holding services in mess halls and "Y" huts, they will have a $21,220 chapel for every post (22 in the biggest camps), each seating 400 soldiers, equipped with altar, electric organ, slant roof, steeple. The altars are being built on tracks, so they can be slid back when the chapels are used for other purposes. Ground for the first of these new chapels was broken last fortnight at Arlington...