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...much for one Negro drummer from the Charles Young Post of Charlotte, N. C. Swinging his drum to his shoulder, he dropped out of line, mopping a wet brow. He craned his neck at the Selfridge Field planes and with a sigh, sank to a resting position on his instrument. The crowd swallowed...
Died. Harry Kelsey Devereux, 72, Cleveland socialite, onetime president of the Grand Circuit Racing Association and of the American Association of TrottingHorse Breeders, model for the drummer boy in the late A. M. Willard's* painting The Spirit of '76; at Thomasville, Ga.; of heart failure...
...drummer, arrested for stealing merchandise and given a chance to make restitution rather than go to jail, argues as to whether he shall pay back at wholesale or retail prices...
...guardian of Boston's theatrical morals started life as a trap drummer in burlesque houses in the days when chorus ladies carried spears. He became kettledrummer for the Boston Symphony Orchestra, but his career as a tympanist was cut short when he met with an accident and had to have his right arm amputated at the shoulder. Mr. Casey's father, an upholsterer, was one of the best friends of the then Mayor, Patrick Andrew Collins. Mayor Collins found Mr. Casey the job he still holds...
...ambitious young drummer was trying to sell a new register to a hotel in Wheeling, W. Va. Leaning against the desk, he watched groups of politicians moving about the lobby, observed that the man they clustered about was William H. Johnson, editor of the Wheeling Register. A few months later Norman Edward Mack, just 21, a traveling salesman no longer, borrowed $2,500, established a Sunday Times in Buffalo, N. Y. and set out to become a political power himself. Four years later he borrowed some more money and made the Times a daily, so that he would not have...