Word: sax
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nine-man band made sweet music that sounded like two marshmallows meeting headon. Its shuffling, danceable rhythm treacled out of a fair piano, a soggy sax, a toneless trumpet, a cooing clarinet and a bass. The feature acts, a good old square dance and the numbers the boys in the band clowned up in trick hats and phony mustaches, were strictly corny. But last week, while many another U.S. nightclub with tonier entertainment was as empty as the inside of a kettledrum, Chicago's old standby, the Blackhawk Restaurant, couldn't find room for all the customers...
Rossini's own melodic funeral oration when he died, wealthy and honored at 76, made history of a sort. An ensemble of Adolphe Sax's new instruments was hired to play Beethoven's Funeral March-the first time that saxophones were ever used at a funeral...
...Catholic slogan that 'birth control is against God's law' is the most immoral creed over proposed by man," Karl Sax, professor of Botany, declared in an interview last night defending the bill now before the State Legislature which would enable Bay State physicians to prescribe contraceptives for married women...
...bill would have no effect on the birth rate," Professor Sax said, "since 90 percent of the married couples in the Greater Boston area already use some form of contraceptive...
...KARL SAX Professor of Biology Harvard University Cambridge, Mass...