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...Indian and his friends contrived other instruments to thump and tootle with the snail's shell. By the time the Aztec civilization was at its height, and the Spaniards arrived in Mexico, the Indians were playing teponaxtles (wooden cylinders, with tongues inside producing two different notes), huehuetls (tree-trunk drums), pipes and flutes of clay, rattles and rasps of many materials. All the Aztec instruments of definite pitch were tuned to the five-note sea shell's scale. As early Spanish chroniclers noted, the Aztecs played and sang ballads, war songs, dance rituals. But no one ever wrote...
...slightly; he seemed pleasantly weary, a touch debonair. He was happy to be home, and admitted it. A reporter referred to the 13-hour Gibraltar delay while British searched the Conte di Savoia for Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, once Nazi Minister of Economics. Newsman: "Was Dr. Schacht in your trunk?" Grinned Mr. Welles: "Just like Morgan's midget...
...others, mean his passage into professional oblivion. It is not conceivable that Jackie Cooper or Freddie Bartholomew might bloom into a Spencer Tracy. It is conceivable that Mickey might. If he does avoid the fate of Jackie Coogan, et al., he will have his Mom and the old theatrical trunk in which he was raised to thank, as well as his rough-&-tumble personality and physique. In fact, he does not like so much attention to be paid to his personality...
About four that morning Bigger murders Mary in her bedroom, carries her downstairs in a trunk, burns her body in the furnace, conceives an alibi to implicate her Communist lover. Bigger's explanation to himself is that the murder was an accident, would not have happened if she had not passed out on rum. Shortly before he is caught in a rooftop chase he murders his girl Bessie with a brick, throws her down an airshaft...
Frenchman Aristide Maillol (pronounced Mayoll) made a long false start. For ten years he tried to paint; for another six he designed tapestries. When he was nearly 40 he took a tree trunk, carved from it a nude figure that he liked very much. Thereupon Aristide Maillol became a sculptor. At 78 he is dean of them all. Last week a show of his work opened in Manhattan's Buchholz Gallery, demonstrated Oldster Maillol's extraordinary talent for imbuing sculpture with both vitality and repose...