Word: drum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...clean. The ballyhoo of Sports Cavalcades and Games of the Day is big business. Games are the stock in trade and each has its own price tag. The men in University Hall are not expected to be booking agents for a football team. Nor are they expected to be drum beaters and publicity agents. No college should have to sell itself to the public on the merits of its football team. When it tries, it becomes less a college and more a paid performer...
Larry Corser: Chairman, Special Committee on Student-Faculty Relations; Chairman, Spring 1953 Blood Drive; Drum Major, Harvard Band; 'House Basketball; Comptroller, All-College Weekend...
Thou Swell (Beryl Booker Trio; Discovery). Slightly nervous but mighty high-flown ivory-tickling on another Rodgers & Hart oldie, with firm drum and bass support by an all-girl combo...
...picture begins with the drum roar of motorcycle motors, as 30 or more of them pound over a highway between the crazy young legs of a bop-sent, trouble-hungry "sickle club" of teen-age boys. Pacing the pack is Marlon Brando, the wild one of the title, an actor whose sullen face, slurred accents and dream-drugged eye have made him a supreme portrayer of morose juvenility. The motorized wolves burst into the small town of Wrightsville, stack their machines along the curb, and pile into the local saloon to look for some action. They...
...Count played a phrase or two on the piano, the rhythm section began to boost the beat while cymbals sizzled in the background. Five saxophones took up the melody, sweetly and a bit hoarsely, and then seven brasses began to clip into it with cross rhythms. Suddenly the snare drum cut loose with the effect of a burp gun, and the whole band leaped into ear-crushing chords and rammed home the climax...