Word: isham
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...trimmed even further. At the end, the club that had access to the cables included only five men in Foggy Bottom: Rusk and Benjamin Reed, Executive Secretary of the State Department; William Bundy, Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, and his aide, Hay ward Isham; and Under Secretary of State Nicholas deB. Katzenbach. Not even these precautions were considered entirely reliable when particularly touchy issues were involved. At such times, scrambler telephones and even couriers were used in preference to cables...
...organ is one one-third the size of the instrument it replaces, but its better placing makes it more effective, according to Ferris. The old organ, built in 1932 as a memorial to Albert Keep Isham '15, was "not particularly distinguished, badly placed, and of a type that is costly to maintain," Ferris said. Like most American organs of the past fifty years, it was electro-pneumatic--key action was electrically controlled...
...VINTAGE SERIES (RCA Victor) offers classic jazz and blues recordings cleaned up and rereleased. So far, Duke Ellington, Leadbelly, Jelly Roll Morton, Isham Jones and Coleman Hawkins have had a record each. Almost all are performances that have been completely unavailable for two decades or more...
...GREAT ISHAM JONES AND HIS OR CHESTRA (RCA Victor). Mother can also explain about Isham Jones and his long reign as the sweetest of the sweet dance bands. Jones's own most famous song, I'll See You in My Dreams, is not included, but Darkness on the Delta, The Blue Room, and For All We Know are among these reissues from the early '30s. The sound of the silky saxes is surprisingly faithful...
Colonel Ralph Isham, a wealthy Manhattan collector, to accomplish that, and in 1949 he passed the papers on to Yale (for a reported $500,000), where at last they were published (seven volumes so far) and became part of Curator Tinker's rare books collection...