Word: pinging
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tuesday was the "Elephant Hunt." By way of introduction, the toastmaster explained the difficulties of finding a new symbol to replace the twenty-year-old cartoonists' version of an elephant looking back on its laurels of yesterday. Three women and a man, dressed like African hunters, and equipped with ping-pong ball guns, then stalked onto the stage to the beat of jungle drums. The man grappled with the microphone which barely reached his chin and informed the party workers that they were starting on an elephant hunt, but that only the young in heart could follow. "Everyone must...
Even to a man with a tin ear, oil-drum music is an advance over the ashcan-and-bottle music of the Trinidadian '305. By pressing out graded circles in the bottom of a section of drum, the Invaders get a melody job (the "ping-pong") with a range of two octaves. Other refinements: "alto pans," "tune-booms." and "bass-booms." For their Manhattan audience. the Invaders beat their way through some celesta-like calypsos and a Mambo in F. One listener compared the sound to that of "a Jovian steel guitar." Consensus: certainly the best back-alley balalaika...
...your book review of Party Going, by Henry Green (TiME, Sept. 17), you say, "What remains in 1951 is the shell of a satire with about as much yoke as a ping pong ball." Your word play on eggs falls short of U.S. AA grade . . . DONNA CONNELL Napa, Calif...
...brained upper-class Britons-is next door to limbo. Writing this novel in the '30s, Author Green wrapped the comedy of a lesser Waugh in the chatter of a lesser Coward. What remains in 1951 is the shell of a satire with about as much yoke as a ping-pong ball...
...Into West Berlin on the subway came Karel Douba, 32, who claims to be the ping-pong champ of northern Czechoslovakia, and his blonde girl friend. They told how they had crossed the Czech border by carrying a basket of mushrooms and posing as pickers. In the Soviet zone of Germany they thumbed a ride, found that the driver who slowed down to pick them up was a Red policeman. He took them to Berlin without question. Douba said he recently finished serving a year's jail term imposed when a Communist agent heard him joking in a restaurant...