Word: bandsmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reader toward what should be a shocker of an ending. The combo folded, the narrator recalls, after its thunderous Negro drummer died of too many pep pills and too much whisky. Slowly, 25 years later, the sax player is made aware of a horrifying truth: one of the white bandsmen, obsessed with race hatred, deliberately fed the ailing Negro the poison that would kill...
...rambling, yellow-walled palace at Rabat, red-liveried Negro bandsmen of the royal "Black Guard" beat a tattoo and blared fanfares. Eleven men filed through the palace courtyard, up a marble staircase and into an ornate chamber reeking of incense. There, seated on his gilt and brocaded throne, King Mohammed V last week welcomed the members of Morocco's fourth government in less than three years of independence...
...bucket brigade" of Bandsmen and bystanders succeeded in removing most of the instruments before they could be damaged, but several drum heads were warped by the heat, and a newly purchased bassoon was completely destroyed. The big bass drum, long a Band trade mark, was taken from the building while its case was in flames, but remained apparently unharmed by the flames or heat...
...kitchen staff is geared to turn out 1,700 meals (broiled sirloins, Chinese combination plates) in half an hour. To ferry these around, Maksik employs roughly 100 waiters (in black cutaways and black-and-gold-striped waistcoats), 40 busboys and seven captains. Counting his bartenders, stagehands and bandsmen, Maksik has 275 people on his staff at the height of the season, and a weekly payroll of $25,000. His towel bill alone runs to $1,200 a week...
Even the Harvard band will brave both the elements and the taunts of onlookers with its red coats. The bandsmen will march the entire five-mile distance, shielded by shamrocks in their lapels and an "Erin go bragh" emblazoned on The Drum...