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No one who has not heard the harp in recital can imagine the amazing volume of tone it produces. To look at it, with its aesthetically-shaped frame, and its rows of fragile strings, one would think the best it could manage were a few inspired, but hardly audible tinkles...

Author: By Jonas Barish, | Title: THE MUSIC BOX | 2/20/1941 | See Source »

At 6:15 of a February morning, the wind whistles off the snow and ice of the Flatbush meadows. The barracks at Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn, windows open, are very, very cold. And cold seems the heart of Sergeant Earl Sanborn, USMC, who on the dot of 6:15...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIR: Fledglings | 2/17/1941 | See Source »

That new name and that proud statement brought gusty joy to a hilarious new sodality lately war-born in, of all places, the Argentine. In Buenos Aires two months ago a group of young Britons and Anglo-Argentines, mostly junior executives in Ernst, Berg & Cia. (advertising agency), formed, half in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: WHIFFS, PUFFS & SNUFFS | 12/30/1940 | See Source »

Aside from willingness to contribute, prime requisite for F. o. B. membership is to be "a fellow being with a bellow feeling" to enjoy windy punning and complex ritual. Payment of one peso initiation fee makes the joiner a Whiff (all non-joiners are Snuffs, ritualistically defined as "infinitely worse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: WHIFFS, PUFFS & SNUFFS | 12/30/1940 | See Source »

Servants of the Bellows, "to be blown into office annually unless blown out," are High Wind (President) William Rumboll of Ernst, Berg & Cia.; Whirlwinds (Secretaries) George Ward and Alan Murray, both of London & South American Investment Trust; Receiver of Windfalls (Treasurer) and Keeper of the Windbag (Assistant Treasurer) Colin Shearer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: WHIFFS, PUFFS & SNUFFS | 12/30/1940 | See Source »

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