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...Professional politicians snorted at such feminine amateurishness. But strangers, intrigued by the idea of a wife campaigning for a husband in the Philippines, offered money (which she refused), publicity (for which she was a natural), plus solid advice on how to avoid party tie-ups and how to soft-pedal the fact that her candidate wzcs a Republican in heavily Democratic Salt Lake...
Sheaves to Rye. Three trombonists-blond Eddie Anderson (from Sonny Dunham's band), slicked Norman Conley (Eddie Stone's) and curly-haired Chuck Maxon (Paul Whiteman's)-growled "Pedal G," their lowest possible note. The reeds began to wail. When the melody of the old hymn, Bringing in the Sheaves, roared through, Brick nodded happily: "It's in there." He lit a cigaret, drank a glass of water and visited the control room, all the time directing the band with his pinkie, and rocking his head like a strutting turkey gobbler...
...echoing rotunda. He sat down, idly began playing The Lost Chord. After a few notes he stopped, awed. The Capitol dome, fourth highest in the world, had amplified the organ notes to rolling musical thunder. Raboin experimented. He discovered that by sounding different notes on a low pedal he could create sympathetic vibrations in the rotunda of the Capitol. The effect was terrifying. The sound rose to an eerie roar. It rattled the windows, shook doors, threatened to bring down the 5½-ton chandelier suspended from the dome's cap.* But that was only one side...
...viole de gambe (six-stringed forerunner of the cello), a viole d'amour (whose seven steel strings vibrate in "sympathy" as the seven gut strings are played), a basse de viole (big forerunner of the stringed bass). He commissioned Pleyel of Paris to make a two-manual, six-pedal harpsichord...
Even the Administration, which has proposed no plan half so forthright, was pleased. Franklin Roosevelt invited Senator Tom Connally (who had tried to soft-pedal the speech by asking everyone to be quiet and put his trust in the President until he returned from his meeting with Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin) to bring his bipartisan Foreign Relations subcommittee to the White House for a talk...