Word: drumming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...college scouts. Before Brown's regime, 3,000 was a big crowd for a Massillon High School game. The year he left, the school owned a $300,000 stadium (with enough seats for nearly every man, woman & child in the town), supported a snazzy 64-piece band (with drum major and four majorettes), attracted larger football crowds than any college team in Ohio except Ohio State...
...Harvard Radio Workshop will begin its 1942-43 program with a fantasy on the evacuation of Dunkirk by Milton Van Dyke '44, Workshop member. The play, "Take My Drum to England," will be the first of a series of indefinite length to be given every Wednesday at 9 o'clock on the Crimson Network. It will be given on November 4, a week from this Wednesday...
...feel that whoever gave you the information for your story must have been moved by a sudden exuberance for dramatization plainly showing that he must be a newcomer. So we take liberty at this time to advise you that what General Hoge is now doing has been done, without drum and trumpet accompaniment, by the Alaska Road Commission for the past 40-odd years; nor has fanfare ever sounded for the Bureau of Public Roads which does exactly the same type of work...
...highbrow, Trombonist Satterfield, son of a West-Virginia farmer, is famed, not for symphonic and operatic tromboning, but for his hot riffs as a member of Raymond Paige's "Young Americans" and several well-known U.S. dance bands. Never before (except in the case of one obscure drum & cymbal player) had the august Philharmonic unbent its classical dignity so far as to hire a former U.S. jazz artist...
Trumpeters, horn-blowers, drummers, and men who play percussion instruments are wanted. There will also be a competition for drum major in the near future...