Word: trumpeter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tune needed, said Librarian of Congress Luther Evans, is more military history. "As one of my colleagues at Columbia once said: 'In abandoning the drum-and-trumpet school of history, we adopted the bum-and-strumpet school...
...bent over the table, their heads almost touching as they studied the maps. The two sides clashed almost immediately. The Communists wanted to draw the demarcation line along the old North-South Korean boundary, the 38th parallel. If they could swing this, they would be able to trumpet to the world that the war had ended where it began; it would also win for the Reds much valuable real estate, for U.N. units in spots are now as much as 35 miles north of the parallel...
...deals. It is a city of salesmen, technicians and craftsmen, mechanics and makers of chemicals, furnaces, tools, dies and household appliances. Almost half of its employed population are the 320,000 workers who perform the automaton labor of the auto plants. They speak to the world through such trumpet-voiced agents as red-haired Walter Reuther-and speak so loud they are now among the best-paid workers in the world...
Robert Neville, TIME'S Bureau Chief in Hong Kong, runs a listening post-an ear trumpet on Red China's coast. His job is to pick up each rumble and whisper from the mainland. He hears plenty of both...
CAREER: California-born (1902) and Texas-bred; graduate of Texas' military-minded Agricultural & Mechanical College, where he helped earn his way by peddling candy in dormitories, played trumpet in the school band; in 1923, he entered the Army Air Service, worked up the peacetime ladder; on the eve of Pearl Harbor, he was deputy chief of staff, Sixth Air Force at Albrook Field, Panama Canal Zone...