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Faubus' personal attacks merely rebounded off Bumpers' wholesome persona. The son of a hardware-store owner who had served in the state legislature, Bumpers has been a Scoutmaster, Sunday school teacher, World War II Marine sergeant and smart-stepping bandsman (trumpet) at the University of Arkansas. He took over the family store when his parents were killed in a 1949 auto crash, later sold it to buy a 360-acre farm and raise Angus cattle. He sold some of the cattle to finance his campaign against Faubus...
Sometime during the third quarter of The Game tomorrow afternoon, a middle-aged woman sitting near the front of the Harvard University Band section will stand up to the cheers of the band, puff gamely on a cigar, and collapse into the arms of a bandsman...
...tallow-faced boy," as his father recalls him, Bill went to work sacking groceries at the A. & P. for 75? an hour, still found time to write for Marshall High School's newspaper The Parrot (whose most famous staffer was Lady Bird Johnson), serve as a cheerleader and bandsman, play the role of the parson in his senior class play One Foot in Heaven, and rack up a scholastic average...
...addition, the committee has scheduled the music of Ruby Newman, perennial Class Week bandsman, for the formal spread Tuesday evening and the informal dance for seniors and alumni Wednesday, both in the Lowell House courtyard...
Also included in the budget is the cost of a police escort for home games ($163 last season); the cost of one meal per Bandsman at all away games ($260 for two games last year); and the cost of the Band's instrument truck for away games ($150 per trip...