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Scene: The Aeronaves de Mexico airline office in the sweltering west-coast town of Culiacan. Time: 9 a.m. A nervous man in khaki shoves a heavy drum-shaped package across the counter...
...head table, studded with unemployed Democrats, ran the length of the long wall in the Hotel Continental's banquet room. My friend and I sat at a corner table with John C. carr, state party chairman. An orchestra-a drum, piano, and saxophone-played continuos dinner music including How Much is That Dog in the Window, Frivolous Sal-and at McMcnimen's request, Your Nobody Till Somebody Loves...
Caldwell Titcomb's music for the flute and drum provides a highly effective setting for the poetry, and Louis Begley has done an excellent job abridging the plays. In all it is an excellent job, one that should be repented often with other pieces which might fit into a similar staging...
...crossing her eyes and making the faces that she had found surefire in attracting her father's attention. She played billiards on the third floor with her brothers, and harmonized in the music room with her sisters. She beat out hot rhythms on her brother's trap drum and played aggressive solos on kazoo, ukulele and banjo. She admired and envied her stately older sister Clara ("The Duchess"), and made life both miserable and exciting for her younger sisters, Mary Jane and Josephine. Mary Jane recalls: "I can't count the number of dark closets Ros locked...
...served as head drummer boy, after "knocking the block" off another drummer boy. Albert was fitted with a blue uniform and shipped to Tennessee in time to play his drum in battle; he went along when General George H. Thomas beat Hood's Confederates in the Battle of Nashville. He was mustered out the next year, one of nearly 2,000,000 Union veterans. He became a wood turner, worked quietly at his trade for 65 years, and retired...