Word: drumming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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William B. Tabler '36, last year's high-stepping drum major will continue to twirl the baton this fall...
...world's record the other day for beating a snare drum for six and a half hours. That is to say he beat the record.") He has a prodigious memory, and this year won honorable mention from the Pulitzer Prize committee for an obituary of Sir Ronald Ross, written chiefly from memory. He reads voraciously, likes to quote Emerson, says he thinks Elbert Hubbard was the best rewrite man of his age. On occasion Editor Bingay can be exceedingly sharp-tongued. Reporters under him testify that "he can take the hide off anyone in about seven sentences." When excited...
Married. The Hon. Nancy Phyllis Louise Astor, 24, only daughter of Eng land's famed Lord & Lady Astor; and Lord Gilbert James Heathcote-Drum mond-Willoughby de Eresby, 25, horse-racing heir of the 2nd Earl of Ancaster; in Taplow, Buckinghamshire, England...
...marrying Mdivanis was Alexis, the youngest and last to arrive in the U. S. Shrewd, he never went to Hollywood, confined himself to the hard money fortunes of the East, got himself married to Louise Astor van Alen, great-granddaughter of the late, great Mrs. William Astor, drum major of the famed 400. When she divorced him Alexis, undaunted, drifted over to Paris, then had the inspiration of plunging around the world to Bangkok, where Miss Barbara Hutton, heiress to the Woolworth 5#162; amp; 10#162; store millions, was due to arrive on a world cruise...
...takes more than $1.30 to inflate one of our bags. I have them from 60 ft. to 95 ft. The larger will carry two riders, usually a man and a woman. We have done all stunts mentioned and a great many others. Our "stove pipe" is a steel drum at least 24 in. in diameter. We frequently use an inflator. Also we seldom use poles any more. We use a gin pole in the inside till the bag is selfsupporting. We have put on a great many ascensions, playing large fairs and expositions. We played the Tennessee State Fair...