Word: drumming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year while foreign airlines took the big share of the U.S. air cargo business with 339 flights. Furthermore, the U.S. lines' share of the cargo business dropped from 43% to 36% in the last year. Seaboard thought it could get some of the business back, as well as drum up plenty of new business...
Conga Line. Whatever Desi had, it was something the public liked. He began beating a conga drum in Miami and soon nightclub audiences, from Florida to New York, were forming conga lines behind him. His good looks and unquenchable good humor interested Producer George Abbott, who was searching for a Latin type to play a leading role in Too Many Girls. "Can you act?" asked Abbott. "Act?" answered Desi, expansively. "All my life...
Seattle has reported such leading conversational subjects as "steelhead trout running at Government locks," a judge's criticism of the brevity of drum-majorettes' costumes, and the tests of a new plane at Boeing Field. The federal tax paid by numbers racketeers was the leading subject in Cleveland one week, and Miami was recently discussing the record racing season at Hialeah. The talk in Oklahoma one week was the transfer of the 45th Infantry Division from Japan to Korea. Dallas discussed the tidelands oil fight and fretted over dust storms, and New Orleans deplored the poor weather...
...frustrated Jeilo maker vented his pent up emotions in Harvard Square yesterday. Beating his head, which had bells on it, and hitting his back, which had a drum on it, Victor Minghello, Mingliello, one-man band, performed to the satisfaction of passers-by and his manager...
Only other recorded instance when women performers even got near the Band was at a concert for the National Association of Manufacturers at New York in December 1949. Three drum majorettes from Hempstead, L.I., High School were allowed to twirl to the Band's music...