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John Thurmond became Tillman's attorney and boss of Edgefield County. One day, when a drummer for a drug company used "hot language" about John being a Tillmanite and threatened John with a knife, John shot him dead. The jury's verdict: not guilty of murder...
...hired on the spot to lead the band in a bigger place that Nick was starting. On opening night, the thin, bashful kid from Providence found himself giving the downbeat to such hot-jazz bigwigs as Trombonist Georg Brunis, Clarinetist Pee Wee Russell, Guitarist Eddie Condon and powerhouse Negro Drummer Zutty Singleton. In the cult-ridden, vociferous world of hot jazz, Hackett became an overnight sensation. Erudite Manhattan jazzophiles went learnedly ga-ga over Hackett's musical kinship to the late great Bix Beiderbecke. Author Dorothy (Young Man With a Horn) Baker came night after night to listen...
They had no trouble talking Florida's florid Senator Claude Pepper into being their candidate. Deadpan Claude Pepper, onetime champion of Russia, onetime apologist for Henry Wallace, onetime defender of Harry Truman against the Dixie rebels, and the last drummer in the Eisenhower parade, made the most of the spotlight. He strode into the abandoned Eisenhower headquarters, bussed his wife at the cameramen's request and proclaimed that he would "accept the draft." Said Claude Pepper: "This is no time for politics as usual...
Into Victoria Barracks at Beverley, Yorkshire, one day last week walked Walter Campbell, drummer of the East Yorkshire Regiment. He wanted to make sure of the medical benefits due all Britons under the new National Health Service Act, starting July 5. There was one difficulty. Drummer Campbell was a deserter, and had been since...
...time of uncertainty . . . One of these government commissions was talking of doing away with the good old scarlet uniform and replacing it with field grey or 'khokee.' Magazine rifles (far too complicated for active service) were being issued . . . Soon even the drum might be threatened. No wonder Drummer Campbell deserted...