Word: drummings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...premises of the Tube City Lumber Co. with $5.20 in change stuffed and jingling in his shoes, Herbert W. Gailey, 33, explained: "I save dimes." Surprise! Near Warren, Ohio, after her husband bought an 1,800-lb. elephant to give her "something different" for her birthday, Mrs. Orla Drum proudly said that it was just what she wanted, planned to put it with the other animals in the zoo she keeps on her farm...
Long before World War II. the government of Caribbean Trinidad banned bamboo drum bands in order to stop bloody street fights between competing drummers. For a while there was comparative quiet, but with the war and the arrival of U.S. forces came a deluge of 50-gallon oil drums, and some inventive fellows discovered a way to make them into musical instruments. They divided the heads into pie-shaped segments, peened them until each segment gave on': a separate musical note when struck with padded sticks. For "bass booms" the drums were left full length, for baritones they were...
...Goodness, Forget It." Harold Talbott had admitted using official Air Force stationery to drum up business for Mulligan & Co. (TIME, August 1), but he could see no wrong in this, even though some of the companies to which he wrote had defense contracts. He did not even see any wrong in his dealings with the Radio Corporation of America. Repeatedly and emphatically, he denied that he kept on trying to talk R.C.A. (which does vast amounts of work for the Air Force) into signing up with Mulligan, that he continued even after R.C.A. raised questions as to the legality...
...Buffalo a band of hoodlums broke into School 69 last week, emptied fire extinguishers over the auditorium's seats, smashed a snare drum through a bass drum, broke two large ceramic vases, slashed a movie screen to ribbons, desecrated a new American flag, broke both skylights in the gym, and in general indulged in a wholesale orgy of ink splashing, paint splattering, light-bulb smashing. Estimated damage: $1,000. What worried Buffalo authorities most: P.S. 69 is the twelfth school to be attacked since last February...
...example, during '30's junior year the University Band gained the distinction of possessing the largest bass drum in the country and paraded as the largest marching unit in the East. That year the football team collected its first victory over Yale since 1922. The Crimson's much-publicized line was sparked by James Douglas, Jr. '30, R. H. O'Connell '30, and James E. Barrett '30, captain of the 1929 eleven...