Word: trumpets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Almost a decade ago, millions believed that the world had beaten its spears into pruning hooks and had hung its trumpet of war in the hall of the United Nations. Today, some people believe that, when the U.N. sounded its trumpet in Korea, it defended the peace with pruning hooks. Others believe that the U.N. is a spearhead of world government and, therefore, a menace to national sovereignty...
With $90,000 from his father and another oilman, Crawford sank his first shantytown well. It was a modest producer. He sank two more, found more oil, and started his fourth well. At dawn on New Year's Day, after playing trumpet with Horace Heidt's band in Los Angeles, Crawford hustled to the drilling site. He arrived in time to see his drillers bring in a gusher from a new formation-and start a rush of oilmen to Huntington Beach...
Theme & Variations. In Milwaukee, arrested for drunkenness, Trumpet Player Arden J. Klassa, 34, blamed his troubles on the fact that he looks so much like Liberace, and "a lovely young brunette" was so struck with the resemblance that "we went to a lovely cocktail lounge, we discussed music, we each drank eleven martinis...
...Jazz Workshop Quintet will also perform. It has been at the Stable for eight months, and includes a former trumpet player for Stan Kenton, Herb Pomeroy. Lumbard described the Quintet's music as progressive jazz...
Eight contestants, including a Radcliffe trumpet player, will compete tonight in the annual concerto contest of the Pierian Sodality of 1808, Mike A. Bamberger '57, the Society's manager, said last night...