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...course, you try to sit in the band's seats during half-time). One tradition that is neither silent nor unseen looms over all others. For those of you who have never been to a football game or band concert, that tradition is the band's symbol: The Big Drum...
Some hecklers from the audience may cry out, "Just how big is the drum?" If Johnny Carson had boned up on his Harvardiana and was here to answer he'd say, "Well, I'll tell ya, it's so big that it bears the distinction of being 'The Largest Playable Drum with Plastic Heads East of the Hudson.'" The hard data on the drum, puchased in 1955 for $4000, is that it measures seven feet in diameter...
...each football game (home and away), the men and women in white suits, the prop crew, escort The Big Drum onto the field at half-time. Besides lugging the monster drum around, they are responsible for its protection from various lunies and Yalies who sometimes try to knock it down or even steal...
...noted historian; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Tourtellot served as associate producer of The March of Time films and adapted General Eisenhower's Crusade in Europe for a TV series. He was the author of Benjamin Franklin: The Shaping of Genius, and William Diamond's Drum, The Beginning of the War of the American Revolution-a widely praised account of the Battle of Lexington and Concord-and other popular histories...
Though Inventor Clive Sinclair, 37, is hoping to drum up demand for his set throughout Europe, he is particularly interested in the rich American market, where he has limited sales to such pricy outlets as Manhattan-based Bloomingdales, Dallas' Neiman-Marcus and Southern California's Bullocks. Even so, he insists the set "is not a toy. Its uses are endless-at sporting events, on a boat, commuting by train, for automobile passengers...