Word: harmonica
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...committee members were old hands at the game. Among them: Rabbi Benjamin Schultz, head of the newly formed Joint Committee Against Communism; Mrs. Hester McCullough, whose defense against a libel suit brought by Dancer Paul Draper and Harmonica Player Larry Adler ended in a hung jury (TIME, June 5); Managing Editor Theodore Kirkpatrick of the anti-Communist newsletter Counterattack, who served with the FBI for three years during World War II. Their bible was a $1 book, Red Channels, put out by Counterattack as a directory of suspected Reds and party-liners in the entertainment business...
...case before Judge Smith was a $200,000 damage suit brought by Larry Adler, the harmonica player, and Paul Draper, the dancer, against Mrs. John T. McCullough, Greenwich, Conn, housewife (TIME, Dec. 5), who had publicly objected to their performing at a local concert...
...mournful harmonica rendition of Hearts and Flowers, a group of traders marched across the paper-strewn floor of the New York Stock Exchange one afternoon last week. At Post No. 9 they stopped, laid down a wreath to the memory of an old friend...
...large men. He became the star of the basketball team, progressed from near illiteracy to lead the college literary society; he had decided on a career as a writer when he discovered that his true genius was musical. For Thurs, it was a short step from hymns on the harmonica to composing a fugue for the piano. In short, he might have been voted most likely to succeed had not his wrestling the "Christian system" left him at the end of the book to face life with some unorthodox views...
...shows a dishevelled, drunken, and discouraged Negro MP sprawled on a pile of rubble wistfully playing his harmonica for an Italian urchin. He falls asleep, and the boy steals his shoes. Waking, the MP chases the child to its bombed-out home, where, confronted by the sight of utter poverty and despair, he can only turn and flee back to the city, leaving his shoes and his anger behind in the ruins...