Word: drummer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This conformed to the political pattern by which Petrillo has always governed and maintained authority within the union. Of the A.F.M.'s 215,000 members, only 80,000 are full-time musicians. By cultivating the tavern pianist, the burlesque-show drummer, the small-town clerk who plays a piccolo, Petrillo insures himself a long and presumably happy reign...
Kenneth Safford Parker, 52, president of the Parker Pen Co., is an internationalist-minded businessman. His father, the late George Safford Parker, an old-fashioned drummer who started the company in 1891, wanted young Kenneth to have the best of everything, sent him to Paris and Stuttgart for his prep-schooling. But Kenneth Parker has a much bigger reason for being an internationalist-Parker Pen does 40% of its business (last year's gross sales: $18.9 million) outside the U.S. market...
Hoagy Carmichael led the cheering when Old Satchelmouth, his steak-thick lips parted in a grin, stepped on the stand with some of the greatest names in jazz behind him-Clarinetist Barney Bigard, Trombonist Jack Teagarden and Drummer Sid Catlett. Out in the smoke, waiting for the first golden notes, were half the big noises of U.S. sweet & swing-Johnny Mercer, Woody Herman, Abe Lyman, Benny Goodman (see PEOPLE...
...heads at all were broken as the Orange parade swung through Belfast. Some blood, however, was shed. The main noise in an Orange parade is made by the Lambeg drummers, who wallop their four-foot-high Lambegs with cane whips 30 inches long. The noise, they say, is like that an elephant makes-but an elephant cannot make it staccato. A Lambeg drummer isn't doing anything at all until his wrists begin to bleed from smacking against the drum; when they see that Orange blood, the crowd, thinking of the Battle, always cheers...
...little chubbier at 48 (he prefers to call it "plenty-eight"), the Duke celebrated his anniversary by playing some of his old favorites in the theater spot that is most sought after by bandleaders, Broadway's huge Paramount Theater. For some of the boys in his band, Drummer Sonny Greer, Harry Carney, baritone sax, and Guitarist Freddy Guy, it was also an anniversary. They had gone into the Cotton Club with the Duke 20 years ago. Tough little Saxophonist Johnny Hodges joined them there...