Word: drumming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...those who looked long enough, every member of Acrobats' painted cast came alive. Among the performers: a smiling, bloody-handed centurion; a drum-beating dwarf; a quizzical, bare-legged blonde selling Eskimo Pies; a mean-eyed young man in the coils of a friendly python; a crowned, repulsively ugly juggler embracing a beautiful purple ball; trapeze artists necking on a safety net; an old maid caressing a toothed fish. They all hinted at a mingled horror and loveliness which might be the nature of Beckmann's still-undiscovered...
During the war, Bandleader Marshall De Camp got sick & tired of losing drummers in his eight-piece band, Aces of Rhythm. So he hooked his drums to a quarter-horsepower electric motor. A rotating wheel swatted the cymbals; a clutch and gear shift changed the tempo from foxtrot to waltz. The boys in the band unanimously agreed that the mechanical Krupa "sounded like hell." But most of the dancers in the small Minnesota and South Dakota towns were willing to settle for a steady beat. Its strongest champion is the proprietor of the Lyon County (Minn.) dance pavilion, where...
...Marshall toured North China, working in the difficult lower political levels to win practical realization of the military truce he and China's top leaders had arranged. Amid his stops was isolated Yenan, capital of Chinese Communism. There he remained overnight, caught cold watching an elaborate performance of drum dancers and folk singers in an icy auditorium, had a long talk with No. 1 Communist Mao Tse-tung. It was a good bet that Manchuria was mentioned more than once...
...drum, which the army wanted to use for storing flying fortresses during the war, will be out on the field for the first time since 1942 at the Yale game, G. David Schine '49, leader of the Harvard University Band, said yesterday. The drum, which requires a special truck to transport it, is pulled by two men and beaten...
...presented him with an African mahogany table (see cut) and a session of African whoop-te-do. Ceremonially involved were Prince Akiki Nyabongo of Uganda and K. Ozuomba Mbadiwe of Nigeria (both in flowing robes), Asadata Dafora (who did a knottily convulsive dance) and Norman Coker (who beat a drum...