Word: drumming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years, blond, spectacled Episcopalian Melish, 37, has been suiting his actions to his far-leftish words. He is chairman of the National Council of American-Soviet Friendship and has beaten the drum for many another Communist-line cause. As associate rector of Brooklyn's Church of the Holy Trinity, he has had a sympathetic boss-his father, the Rev. John Howard Melish, 73, rector for 44 years...
...André has already acquired the occupational disease of Hollywood composers: a hurt attitude at the way other composers scorn them. Says he: "They don't realize what it is to compose 82 seconds of music for a guy falling downstairs&3151;when you have to have a drum when he hits the fourth step...
When Major General Royal B. Lord, U.S.A. (ret.) arrived in Buenos Aires 18 months ago to drum up some business for his new construction firm, he heard businessmen denouncing President Perón's new five-year plan for industrialization. "Exactly the kind of talk I heard in the first Roosevelt administration," said West Pointer Lord, who had worked for the New Deal (Passamaquoddy Tidal Power Project) long before he worked for Eisenhower in the E.T.O. service of supply. Perón, told what Lord had said, sent for him. Soon he was head of the President...
Life of an Artist. In Phoenix, Ariz., hospital attendants ministered to Doris Elaine Edwards, who had thrown herself into a new dance routine and wound up inside the bass drum...
...Washington, all this drum-beating caught the ear of George Middleton, aging (67) ex-dramatist (Polly with a Past), now a copyright expert in the Office of Alien Property. Middleton began asking Doubleday questions: Who had found the diaries and brought them to the U.S.? And why hadn't they been turned over to OAP as Government property...