Word: bandsmen
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...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...
...blood between the halves at the Yale Bowl today when the Crimson band takes the field. With blood in the collective eye the band sternly declares that it intends to knock the "L" out of Yale. But more than that, having knocked the "L" out of Yale the Crimson bandsmen will "sweep the field with an ever increasing "H" to gobble up a dwindling...
...Herbert Schussler Billerbeck (Herb Williams), 52, plaintive oldtime comedian; of pneumonia; in Freeport, N. Y. For 25 years in his standard act he sported sickly yellow button-shoes on the wrong feet, yanked ham sandwiches, beer, a cat from his piano, broke baseball bats over the heads of heckling bandsmen...
American Tobacco, which makes the biggest single time purchase on N. B. C.'s books, also carries a relatively small talent budget. Though Lucky Strike's weekly Your Hit Parade is played by routine bandsmen, it offers this season a unique merchandising trick characteristic of American Tobacco's rampant, sensation-loving President George Washington Hill. The program purports to present the week's 15 most popular songs. Mr. Hill promises to give a carton of his cigarets to every listener who correctly predicts, in order of popularity, the first three songs. By last month, the "Lucky...
...travel 400 miles merely to agitate a bag of wind!" That was in 1873. Last week there was not a corner in the land which did not hold a college president who would not have been delighted to dispatch a trainload of players, coaches, rubbers, managers, bandsmen on the long, expensive trip to Pasadena for the publicity and profit of playing in the Rose Bowl on New Year's Day. Named by the Pacific Coast Conference week before to represent the West, Stanford was not to select its Eastern opponent until this week. But the regiment of sportswriters...