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...369th get more from their band than most regiments do. Almost every night they hear a jam session, almost hot enough to melt the icicles on the recreation barracks. The band's leaders are Sergeant Reuben B. Reeves and Private Otis Johnson-onetime trumpeters in Cab Galloway's and Don Redman's orchestras...
...notes for Sumner's most comprehensive work, The Science of Society, were unfinished when he died. (He collapsed in Manhattan where, shaky and scant of breath, he had indomitably proceeded to a scientific meeting.) The Science of Society was completed by Sumner's disciple and colleague, Albert Galloway Keller, now a Yale patriarch himself. Sumner left Keller 52 huge drawers and boxes crammed with 156,000 pages of notes. Sumner had his own filing system, using red cards for references to be consulted immediately, green for his own comments. All bore his unique abbreviations, a swastika for "superstition...
...with Mr. Allison on the gastronomic potentialities of their respective cooks. ... On the starting line Carl's cook said to Allison's cook, "What do we start wit, Nigger, hams?" Said Allison's cook to Fisher's cook, his eyes bulging a bit, "Look here, Galloway, did you say ham or hams?" "I said hams," said Galloway. "Nigger, you win," said Allison's cook...
...mood-condition our homes, paint pleasing and ever-changing pictures or designs on our walls. kill bacteria, and so guard us against disease, provide us with health-giving radiation and sun tan while we sleep. . . . Heating lamps may warm our homes in cold weather." So prophesied Lamp Engineer Samuel Galloway Hibben of Westinghouse Lamp...
...tight on Ramos gin fizzes (a drink that was new to them), pelted a policeman with a toy elephant, placated Mrs. Fisher with an armful of knickknacks. On the Gulf, after a day and a half of freezing storm, Pilot Levi headed for Mobile Bay, beached the boat. Cook Galloway leaped ashore. "I'm never going back on that boat again," he announced, and trudged off toward Mobile. Next day the Fishers and Bushman headed back...