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...Government. It has behaved with the same correctness toward Britain's Conservative Government. The Soviet press, however, never hesitates to exercise its claws on individual citizens of the big powers. Last winter Pravda kicked Wendell Willkie resoundingly in the pants and called him an "obedient speaking trumpet" (he had mildly ventured to state that there is a Polish question). Pravda also mauled New York Times Military Commentator Hanson Baldwin, called him "admiral of an ink pool" (Baldwin had said that Red Army advances were in part German retreats...
Betty Bandel, 32, a onetime Arizona newspaper woman, played a trumpet in the Tucson Symphony Orchestra and was terrified that the WACs would make her a bugler. She made herself a model officer, is director of WACs in the Army Air Forces...
...Japan seldom lets 15 short-wave minutes go by without a trumpet fanfare and the announcement: "This is the Broadcasting Corporation of Japan...
Lutes's office in the Pentagon Building would be an imposing background even for a trumpet-voiced, four-star general. Lutes, with his two stars and barely audible voice, mumbles: "I didn't want the damn thing. They built it for Admiral King and when the Navy decided not to move into the Pentagon Building I fell heir...
...from an aesthetic standpoint (with due apologies to Mr. Copland for using that word here) the band is not altogether unbearable. Once in a while, if you listen patiently, you can dissect from the wild conglomeration of over-arrangements an interesting tenor chorus or a refreshing break by a trumpet or trombone. In fact most of the solos are really worthwhile in comparison to the greater portion of the music heard north of 125th St. So if you're tired of Frank- the Radcliffe-conception-of-virility-Sinatra and your soul cries our for some musical satisfaction, fall...