Word: drum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...small crowd was treated to a brief concert between the halves of the Adams-Winthrop contest when a small Adams House band, consisting of four trumpets, two trombones, cymbals, and a small bass drum, marched onto, the field and played "Wintergreen" and "The Darktown Strutters' Ball...
Essentially, the C.N.R. presidency is a job of selling the public. Many a Canadian has criticized the road as a white elephant and urged that it be joined to the privately owned Canadian Pacific. Gordon, who will take over on Jan. i, is expected to drum home the theme that C.N.R. is a national necessity (e.g., it maintains services vital to national development), and to follow through with changes that will lighten its financial load...
Half-time found the Dartmouth cheering stands being serenaded by the Crimson band. It had been announced previously that the visiting stands would get the cold shoulder from the musical organization. They got the serenade, all right, but the big bass drum was left behind. The Harvards were playing it safe...
...Vital Force? Nehru has called for a Congress revitalization, but the reaction has been sluggish. Able Sardar Valkbhbhai Patel, Deputy Prime Minister and Nehru's strong right hand in administration and politics, is too ill and old (74) to beat a new party drum. Some disillusioned Congress followers have turned to the Socialist Party, which has just begun an organizational drive in the villages. Many more, especially from the inflation-harried middle class of clerical workers and small merchants, are turning to the extremists...
...chipped out brilliantly colored linoleum murals recording Haitian history from Toussaint 1'Ouverture to President Dumarsais Estimé. A good third of the grounds was marked as the special Haitian sector. Here earringed women would sell mahogany and wicker, while in a small nearby stadium other Haitians would drum, dance and stage cockfights...