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...site now occupied by Lehman Hall, the first Puritan meeting house was little more than a log cabin. Cambridge itself had been settled only two years before as a "fortified place." Since the meeting house had no bell, the congregation gathered to the roll of a drum. The sober Elders later were able to buy a bell, but their jubilation was short-lived. For Thomas Hooker, their pastor, migrated to Connecticut, leaving only eleven families behind in Cambridge...
...celebration began almost with the first returns. Though the Democratic Party is only three months old, it stole the thunder, many of the members and thousands of the votes of the recently dominant Liberal Party. Each time a Democrat's election was clinched, party workers pounded a lacquered drum and the crowd shouted, "Banzai! Banzai! Banzai!" By morning they had banzaied themselves hoarse...
...curtain raiser for this year's Drumbeats and Song, the Harvard Band swung through a selection of spirited melodies, well matching the energetic performance of Snake Oil. To attempt a criticism of last night's concert would be like kicking holes in the Band's new drum. Each tune was delivered with that punch which stirs a chorus of accompanying shoe taps...
...piece would end. This method alone is not enough to justify the term experimental. But the group at Adams was definitely experimenting. For one thing M.C. Tom Wilson constantly changed the makeup of the group. He shuttled in three different pianists and two drummers-on the conventional drum set-and used his three saxophones solo, duet, and trio. It was a changing group, and since many of the men had never played together before, they had no choice but to experiment. Sonny Watson occasionally laid aside his alto saxophone and took up the flute. It was barely audible at times...
...some excellent work with a "blocked chord" style. In All the Things You Are Watson on the alto and Ray Pitts on the tenor sax-the only two with much experience together-engaged in a beautifully fluid duet in the current "counterpoint" style. Lewis on the conga drum and Arnold Palmer on the regular drum outfit both achieved tympanic effects from their instruments in a highly amusing question-and-answer period near the end of Honeysuckle...