Word: drum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Three hundred strong, the Mullius society marched into the ranks of the peace strikers. Their banner urged bigger and better imperialist wars, Jingoism, and increased armament. The three leaders of the society were dressed as Hitler, Karl Marx, and a boyscout. Quickly the leaders strike tried to beat the drum for peace, but in vain. The Mullius men had turned the strike into a farce. Heckled incessantly, the YCL leaders were showered with eggs, onions, and pennies by the crowd...
...this and feared that Cashmore would hurt Stevenson's chances in New York, since the machine idle for the Senate nominee would not be helping in the Presidential race either. And while Ives was gaining votes for Eisenhower, there would be no strong candidate to help Stevenson. Attempting to drum up Liberal interest in the campaign, they nominated Counts. The Liberals know their man will lose, but they feel that they can help win the state for Stevenson...
...nine minutes Goodman walloped his bass drum and cymbals, zipped out a few flams, drags, rolls and paradiddles on the snare drum, tinkled the xylophone, banged the triangle and tambourine and rattled the castanets, shook a string of sleighbells in his teeth like a dog and wound up lying exhausted across his timpani. The kids enjoyed it as much as Goodman...
With him in the section these days are three or four other regulars (depending on the music to be played), who operate everything from bass drum to bird whistles. Goodman plays on kettles he made himself in his Yonkers shop. Next to his pride in producing a perfectly sustained tone and his ability to tune his instruments to perfect pitch while the orchestra is playing, is his pride in his patented devices for simplified timpani tuning. He has sold kettledrums at $600 a pair to the major U.S. orchestras and to some foreign ones...
...Atlantic City, Western Union showed, off its new "Intrafax" facsimile machine for use by private companies. The machine sends exact copies of sales slips, balance sheets, drawings, telegrams and letters, and it can be used between office floors or neighboring buildings. The sender places a letter on a metal drum, then presses a button. An electric eye scans the letter, reproducing it on paper on another machine in the receiver's office in a few seconds. Price: $648 and up for a year's lease...