Word: reed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...always supplied a basic human need since that greatest of all songsters, Homer. Somewhere along the line, however, a queerly shaped instrument called "saxophone" came into being. By blowing one's breath into the smaller aperture of said instrument, thence through a wood or plastic sliver called a "reed," it is possible to make a most magnificent array of nearly organic sounds. Probably the most frequently imitated sounds are animal grunts, shrill screams of pleasure, and all variety of passionate outcries. Needless to say, a mere finger-tapper has become a man representative of the crudest sensibilities...
...host for a dual meet with the Crimson sailors. For this meet, the Harvard line-up in division A includes skippers Ashton Langworthy and Tom Townsend, and the crew of McKim Williams and Bill Owens. In division B, George Cronin and Nick Baker are the skippers, and John Reed and Art Gossard make up the crew...
...White House President Eisenhower had the sniffles himself, and the chronic bursitis in his right shoulder was acting up enough to call for heat treatment at Walter Reed Hospital.* And when Butler's remarks reached him, his under-collar temperature shot up. Within a few hours Presidential Press Secretary James C. Hagerty had passed the word to New Hampshire's Republican Senator Styles Bridges: Ike thought Butler's comment about Mamie was a political foul...
Parade of Stars (Thurs. 9:30 p.m., NBC). With Dan O'Herlihy, Donna Reed, Jeanette MacDonald...
...Wyman Carroll III will show movies at 7 p.m. tonight in the Union and look for undergraduates with a "sincere interest" in snaring birds for the Eli, insects for Walter Reed, and soil for the U.S. Rubber...