Word: dummer
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Sandy's Jazz Revival in Beverly is featuring the "boss of the blues singers" Big Joe Turner and his Kansas City Band featuring dummer Jo Jones, through...
...Francis Dummer Fisher '47 was born in 1926 in a suburb of Chicago and grew up on a street that was named after the male side of his lineage. His grandfather, whom Fisher characterizes as a "prickly sort of character, a muckraker," made his name in the 1890s in Chicago by wrenching the foul control of the traction-barons, or street-car franchises, off City Hall. And because President William Howard Taft wanted a man who was as "pure as a hound's tooth," as Frank Fisher tells it, to head the Department of the Interior, he went...
Fisher's mother's side was also professional although not as formidable. Still, it produced Katharine Dummer, a woman who, Fisher claims fondly, would have been the vice president of a giant corporation if she had lived in an age that was more hospitable to women. As it was, she died of a protracted illness in 1962, and Fisher delayed his move to Washington by two years to see out the ordeal. Ironically, the only other female member of Fisher's immediate family, his older sister, is also afflicted with a mysterious and unnamed blood disease...
...Freshmen vs. Gov. Dummer at Gov. Dummer...
...Varsity-B vs. Gov. Dummer at Gov. Dummer...