S: (n) Reed, John Reed (United States journalist who reported on the October Revolution from Petrograd in 1917; founded the Communist Labor Party in America in 1919; is buried in the Kremlin in Moscow (1887-1920))
S: (n) Reed, Walter Reed (United States physician who proved that yellow fever is transmitted by mosquitoes (1851-1902))
S: (n) reed, vibrating reed (a vibrator consisting of a thin strip of stiff material that vibrates to produce a tone when air streams over it) "the clarinetist fitted a new reed onto his mouthpiece"