Word: vocalizer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Boat Show needed publicity. The Managing Editor gave us the assignment and subway fare to Mechanics Hall. The handout, in the best public relations tradition, oozed: "Lovely Ann Curtis, the Olympic swim star, currently appearing at the etc, etc, faces a seathing denunciation at the hands of those vocal undergrads of Harvard if she doesn't accept their bid to the Freshman Smoker. The difficulty began when Ann and her famous Olympic partner, Adolph Kiefer, agreed to perform at the Yale..."You get the angle...
...These five "vocal undergrads" hadn't said a word...
...realize . . ." Since then, pudgy Composer Hindemith has stolen minutes and hours from other composition (and more lately from his duties as a professor at Yale) to perfect Marienleben. He rewrote some songs as many as five times, reworked individual passages as much as 20, strengthening and humanizing the vocal line...
...ladder was blocked by another soldier. They wrestled at the hatch, lost their footing and thumped heavily to the ground. A C.N.A.C. ground crewman, a tall youngster in a black cap, screamed at the soldiers: "Stop! Stop! You are mad!" An angry red crawled up the taut vocal cords in his neck. "You are a disgrace, a disgrace to China!" Heedless, the soldiers stepped over their comrades still pummeling each other on the ground and jammed into the plane...
...Barbara Leacock did indecent things to the audience with merely a set of vocal cords. These people put the jaded jazz of the current 52nd street to shame. They are all going to be at the Savoy next Sunday and around and about every weekend thereafter. Catch them when...