Word: bandsmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bandsmen get free tickets to all football games and to many basketball, hockey, and track events at which the band plays. There is always at least one trip away for the band, this year to the Yale Bowl and perhaps to Philadelphia for the Penn game...
...wife, who heads the district's Home League, are one of the few Army couples to be paid as much as $30 a week for their joint work. Many an archbishop supervises a smaller domain than Commissioner Damon's, with its 700 Army posts, 8,000 bandsmen and singers, 35,000 soldiers, annual budget of $1,600,000 in New York City alone...
...catalogues than they would Bing Crosby and Benny Good man. Scout Kapp used to spend a month on a recording trip. Now, with ten trunks full of recording equipment, he camps in a city hotel for ten days, and the musicians come from miles away to play for him. Bandsmen, who must join the musicians' union, get the standard minimum, $30 for three hours of recording. Soloists, who do not have to join the union, are paid from $10 to $50 a side, or earn royalties if their names...
...army that never stops fighting is The Salvation Army. Because the Army's hot-eyed, autocratic Founder William Booth once asked "Why should the devil have all the best tunes?" Army bandsmen have systematically robbed the devil by piecing soul-saving lyrics to rousing songs. Sample: There'll Be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight became Salvation Is the Best Thing in the World. This week ruddy, grey-mustached Brigadier Hubert Edward Burtenshaw of Chicago, dean of the Salvationists' 50,000 U. S. bandsmen, celebrated his 50th anniversary of drumming for the Lord...
...minutes, it was all over. The iron building was not destroyed, but Walter Barnes, his vocalist, six of his ten bandsmen died in the hall. Only a few burned to death; most were smothered or crushed. When the blaze had burned itself out, the dead were piled three deep...