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UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME James E. Allen Jr., LL.D., former U.S. Commissioner of Education. Dr. Allen's trumpet, anything but uncertain, may grate on certain ears, but he is forcing us more rapidly to gird for battle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Kudos: Round 3 | 6/22/1970 | See Source »

...Shakespeare, passages from Death of a Salesman and Inadmissible Evidence, and snatches of Robert Benchley, E.E. Cummings and William Butler Yeats. Then he led the dancing-music courtesy of The World's Greatest Jazz Band-in the State Dining Room. At one point the multitalented Williamson grabbed a trumpet and played a few bars; later on grabbed some of his guests by belting out, in his husky baritone, I Can't Give You Anything but Love, Baby. "This should be an evening that swung!" exclaimed Reveler Williamson. "We should all have fun and everybody get boozed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The White House: Enlivening the Gray | 3/30/1970 | See Source »

...will it happen? Will the end come with trumpet flourishes and 4000 deans and administrative vice presidents singing hosannas and halle-Lujas...

Author: By Michael E. Kinsley, | Title: Rites of Spring Kissing Off The Interim | 3/4/1970 | See Source »

...Swimming. Well aware that corporations abhor bad publicity, the antiplant forces have hired a full-time publicist to trumpet the consequences of pollution. Recently they called in ecologists from the University of Georgia to chart the plant's potential effects on marine life. Three weeks ago, Ecologist Barry Commoner helped them to organize a symposium on conservation that was attended by representatives from the National Audubon Society. The cause also got a boost from vacationing college students who staged a protest in downtown Beaufort, chanting "Progress without pollution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Troubled Little Island | 1/26/1970 | See Source »

LAND OF THE GIANTS (ABC, 7-8 p.m.). Sugar Ray Robinson is a trumpet-playing giant who promises freedom to the crew of a wrecked spaceship if Copilot Don Marshall will agree to give him jazz lessons on the horn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Oct. 24, 1969 | 10/24/1969 | See Source »

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