Word: trumpeter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...always dashing about to show his guests something new. His unusual versatility, again, would pay off better if it were all done in one piece, if it could quick-change, nightclub-style, from tap dancing (Sammy's real forte) to vocalizing to clever imitations to blowing a trumpet to banging the traps...
Because of increased revenues, said Ike, "we can now propose the expansion of certain domestic programs." And with that muted trumpet blast, the Administration turned away from three years of stern domestic budget-trimming to heed the clamor for some home-front expansion. The State Department, Ike said, needs an $89 million raise "to strengthen" its staff, to build a new wing on its main building in Washington and new embassies and consulates abroad. The new federal school-construction program (see EDUCATION) requires a substantial down payment on the $2 billion to be spent over the next five years...
...five saxes play with savage bite or else hum in their eerie, split harmonies behind a pagan trumpet solo; the three trombones clip off their own high-swinging ensemble passages; and the four trumpets blaze away with such ferocity that the effect becomes strangely airy and bodiless. But the chief reason for all the internal excitement is the Duke's new drummer, Sam Woodyard. He sits, lean and still, behind his battery, neatly punctuating every phrase, coming as close as any man could to playing a tune on his four side drums and three cymbals (he actually squeezes pitch...
...Howard E. Kessler of Western Reserve University School of Dentistry in Dental Surgery. Such therapy gives the child frequent muscle-control practice, helps correct his deformity. Sample musical prescriptions: a child with a protruded jaw should play the saxophone or clarinet, a child with a retruded jaw the trumpet, cornet, bugle or trombone...
...TRUMPET UNBLOWN (305 pp.)-William Hoffman-Doubleday...