Word: drummer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Devereux, posed for the young drummer boy (TIME, May 9, 1932). The model for the elderly drummer was the artist's father, Rev. Samuel Willard. The bandaged fifer was Hugh Mosher, Civil Warrior, who actually fifed all the time he was posing...
...used to be the top salesman. In the company's salad days he was not above going down to the railroad station to greet incoming purchasing agents as they stepped off the train. But Salesman Block never used high-pressure methods. Amiable, gentle, softspoken, he resembles the oldtime drummer only in that he continually smokes a long black cigar...
...many a conductor, he freely admits his debt to them. Trombonist Glen Miller is one of the best "hot men" in the U. S. And so is Bud Freeman, Noble's tenor saxophone. Only two of the musicians came from London with Noble: Bill Harty, his manager and drummer, and Crooner Al Bowlly, a swarthy South African who began his career in a Johannesburg...
When the trap drummer of the Conte di Savoia seasickened in mid-Atlantic, big, bald, walrus-mustached Banker Felix Moritz Warburg (Kuhn, Loeb & Co.) volunteered to take his place. Resplendent with a white carnation in the lapel of his dinner jacket, Banker Warburg drummed skillfully through three stormy evenings...
...celebrated poolroom, who is the university's boxing coach. Grizzled little Johnny La Rowe boxed in the Marine Corps in 1890. A weak heart ended his military and athletic ambitions at the same time, but he discovered satisfactory compensations. At Virginia Military Institute, where he had been a drummer & bugler, he instituted boxing classes, taught them for 13 years. Twenty years ago he opened his poolroom near the university campus and began to lecture all his patrons on the satisfactions of his favorite sport. Undergraduates whose only thoughts of recreation had been inseparably associated with the whiskey jug found...