Word: greeting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...also feels that the U.S. has been made "clarinet conscious" by some of the "other kind" of tootlers, e.g., Benny Goodman and Artie Shaw. "What the jazz boys have done with the clarinet," says Kell, "is colossal." Goodman was one of the first to greet him on his arrival, and at lunch later at the Stork Club, complimented him on his "free and warm" playing on records of Schubert's Der Hirt auf dem Felsen. As for playing "the other kind" himself, Kell once made a record of Swing Low, Sweet Clarinet, but admits that "In a jam session...
When the Sacred Cow, bringing her on the last lap of her trip from California, landed at Washington National Airport, a hearteningly enthusiastic little crowd of U.S. and Chinese officials was on hand to greet her. But the welcome turned into something like a bargain-basement sale. The crowd pushed, photographers struggled. George Marshall was conspicuously absent; he had gone to Walter Reed Hospital with an old kidney ailment. Mrs. George Marshall took Madame Chiang firmly by the arm, led her past the microphones of protesting radio men and into a State Department Cadillac...
...also sang; they were not cramped by the stage, but it was hard to see just how they contributed to the 70th Anniversary Benefit. But the Annex wasn't forgotten when the Riffs left the stage, for the final number of the Band was "Radcliffe, Now We Rise to Greet Thee," and the rest of the audience stood up and cheered. Even "Wintergreen" was forgotten in the applause...
...last week, the Sacred Cow (once President Truman's personal plane) landed in Athens. Out stepped Secretary of State George Marshall, who had left his wearisome business in Paris to have a look into the even more wearisome business of Greece. Assembled to greet him, plainly a little embarrassed, were U.S. Ambassador Henry F. Grady, U.S. General James A. Van Fleet and Greek Premier Themistocles Sophoulis (who wore dark glasses despite the day's grey overcast). The Premier remarked that Greece's fate rested in George Marshall's strong hands. He might have added that these...
Fast Friends. In Pasadena, Calif., when Robert Dwyer and Robert Chapman rushed happily to greet each other after a long parting, Dwyer broke his leg, Chapman cracked his" skull...