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...members, more than Michigan's Citizens for Eisenhower at highest tide. Negroes have formed an Elephant Club for Bagwell. In Wayne County, the strongest Democratic thralldom (67%) north of the Mason-Dixon line, 4,500 Working Women for Bagwell are ringing doorbells, penning postcards, phoning friends to drum up votes. The long-dormant Michigan Federation of Republican Labor, revolving around former A.F.L. unions, has been revived...
Members of the Band reported that teen-age children began running through the lines of musicians, and that one young hoodlum belted a Bandsman to touch off the melee. A cymbalist used his instruments as effective and bloody weapons, and one musician broke his drum stick over a near-by head...
...alumni, The Friends of Harvard , had been saying all along that if the Yacht Club could drum up enough interest (i.e., increased membership) they would be happy to supply the group with boats, floats, and a clubhouse. A of 100, preferably 150 names would suffice...
...Masonite board on top of an oil heater to dry. When the board got too hot, he grabbed it by the edges and wobbled It back and forth to cool it off. As he did, out came a resonant twang like the sound of a tight-skinned bongo drum. Harris decided the sound was just the background he needed for his kangaroo song. Harris recorded the number, and soon Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport rocketed to the top of the Australian bestseller list...
Brass and Percussion (Morton Gould and his Symphonic Band; Victor). Marches by Sousa, Goldman, E. E. Bagley and Conductor Gould pit piccolo against bassoon, trumpet against drum, with the listener caught in between, as if trapped in a Fourth of July parade...