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...Victor (TIME, Aug. 11, 1952), finally took their own band on tour this summer. They decided to achieve new sounds by wider use of the old instruments. "We wanted to go high, so we wrote for piccolos," says Sauter. "We wanted to go low, so we added the tuba." Among the band's special effects: Finegan pounding his chest vigorously to imitate horses' hooves...
Unhappy Day (Homer and Jethro; Victor). The inevitable riposte to that vulnerable hit, Oh Happy Day. In hollow tones, and with the accompaniment of tuba and guitar, the singer spells out his misery...
Composer Berezowsky, once a violinist with the Coolidge Quartet and now a staff musician at CBS, turned in an hour-long score of easy melodies and rather plush harmonies. When an elephant became perplexed, the violins and xylophone played good-humored glissandos. When a camel strode, the tuba booped in tempo. And when a song showed signs of becoming too sugary, its harmonies were spiced with dissonance. Berezowsky's best moments came in the circus scene, when he let him self go in razzle-dazzle imitations of a wind band...
Lonesome and Sorry (Bernie Green's Orchestra; Victor). Green, a sort of highbrow Spike Jones, has a lot of fun with tuba solos, banjo, chimes, etc. in a tear-jerking oldtimer...
Hungry for the Bottle. The first Navajo to be treated with isoniazid was a seven-month-old baby girl named Patty. When her parents brought her to Dr. Charles M. Clark at Western Navajo Hospital in Tuba City, Patty was a wizened starveling of 9 lbs., with miliary TB. Her temperature was 103° and she had to be fed by tube. After 17 days of treatment with isoniazid, her temperature dropped to normal and she began taking the bottle hungrily. Now Patty weighs 16 lbs. and her TB seems to have been arrested...