Word: drumming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...busiest of these unpaid, unsung legmen, as the Post tells it, are Pressagents Ed Weiner, Curt Weinberg and Irving Hoffman. Weiner is the columnist's "lobbyist, contact-man, straight-man-about-town"; Hoffman is a columnist for the Hollywood Reporter; Weinberg was Singer Josephine Baker's drum beater until the Stork Club incident, then Weinberg hastily dropped her. Also chased from the Winchell closet was another figure that few other ghosts even knew about: Herman Klurfeld, 35, who sticks close to his Long Island home and is paid a reported $250 a week by Winchell for writing...
...three-story climbs were nothing to him. Once he made it all the way to the top of a 100-ft. extension ladder. Whiskers fell into a drum of ink at a printing-plant fire and came up black. Once, he left a blazing paint factory glittering with gilt. He was unruffled...
Peron's margin was greater than his 55% edge in 1946, a popular mandate loudly acclaimed by his party followers. But it was not the kind of sweeping percentage that strong-man regimes commonly drum up. Peron, in fact, had not seemed to be trying during the campaign. After taking a leave of absence from office to barnstorm for an overwhelming victory, he canceled all such plans when tiis wife Evita fell gravely ill. Sticking lose to Evita's bedside, he made only four radio campaign speeches...
...dancing until midnight are in order. For nice people there are the Shelton Roof for dancing, and the Copley-Plaza's Oval Room for drinking. The Latin Quarter features Lena Horne, while any college man with enough drinks in him gives the performance at the Vendome's Fife and Drum Room...
Even to a man with a tin ear, oil-drum music is an advance over the ashcan-and-bottle music of the Trinidadian '305. By pressing out graded circles in the bottom of a section of drum, the Invaders get a melody job (the "ping-pong") with a range of two octaves. Other refinements: "alto pans," "tune-booms." and "bass-booms." For their Manhattan audience. the Invaders beat their way through some celesta-like calypsos and a Mambo in F. One listener compared the sound to that of "a Jovian steel guitar." Consensus: certainly the best back-alley balalaika...