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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...
...City Censor McNary is a successor of City Censor John Michael Casey, longtime trap drummer in Boston burlesque houses. When a railroad accident cost him his arm, Mr. Casey abandoned his career as a tympanist, became a zealous overseer of Boston's morals...
...little man . . . whose countenance is a caricature of a drummer boy risen too high."? I Saw Hitler by Dorothy Thompson...
...young Negro banjoist from Indianapolis named Noble Sissle. Sissle followed Europe to France during the War where they were members of the 15th New York Infantry's "Black Devil Band" and whence they returned after Armistice to tour the U. S. Later in Boston, a shell-shocked drummer boy shot and killed Europe...