Word: drumming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wheel. Among the newer comics, from sickniks to social satirists, Joey stands alone. His wry, deadpan comments raise even the obvious to the realm of high comedy. At the Sands, in the midst of chaos and pure corn-Sinatra beating a bass drum that advertises his L.A. beanery, or Dean Martin drinking Scotch from an ice bucket-Joey can still be funny...
...Following the fantastic international temblor of drum beating, which caused Stanley Kramer's On the Beach to open simultaneously in 18 cities, including Melbourne, Moscow, London, Paris, Tokyo and Washington, the drums are now being carried right into the jungle. To Dr. Albert Schweitzer, Lambarene, Gabon Republic (French Equatorial Africa) went a special 16-mm. print of On the Beach for his 80th-birthday celebration this week...
...gaze at the frail, wrinkled figure, resplendent in the grey-and-gold uniform of an honorary Confederate general. At a public ceremony in the Houston Music Hall, Texas Governor Price Daniel and representatives of ten other Southern Governors, plus federal and military dignitaries, heard the fife-and-drum corps play his favorites: Dixie, When Johnny Comes Marching Home and The Yellow Rose of Texas. Said U.S. Senator Ralph Yarborough: "He was the last warrior of a lost cause, the sole remaining soldier of a whole civilization. The combatants are all gone now, but we stand in awe of the bravery...