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...Oompah! Oom-pah!" muttered the tympanist as he lashed about in a semicircle, flailing out a solo on his five kettledrums. Then he took a cue from Conductor Howard Mitchell, launched a new flight that moved him to rumble out a profound "Ye-e-a-ah!" For all its appearance of a tribal dance the occasion was a regular concert of the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington. The piece, entitled Concerto for Five Kettledrums and Orchestra, was an answer to a tympanist's dream: being liberated from his exile at the rear of the orchestra and placed out front...
Ever since Boer President "Oom Paul" Kruger first set them up on the slopes of the Wolkberg in 1883, the Mamatola tribesmen of the northeastern Transvaal have cultivated their sunny and windswept land in peace and contentment. Last week a convoy of 23 trucks dispatched by South Africa's Native Affairs Minister Hendrik Verwoerd rumbled up the mountain to carry the 1,200-odd Mamatola off to a new home, Metz, in a dank and inhospitable valley 30 miles to the east. The stated reason: the Mamatola's outmoded farming methods were ruining the land...
...Oom the Omnipotent. The trial last week quickly turned into a bout between Nova and sportswriters in general. The day after the fight, Flaherty's lawyers pointed out, other sportswriters gave Nova an even worse beating than he had received from Louis. "Nova is a spectacular bum [whose] challenge consisted of retreating in hot haste the entire fight," wrote Boston Record Columnist Dave Egan. Added the New York Daily Mirror's Dan Parker: "All Nova showed against the champ was timidity. The fight was . . . an utter stinker ... As to the 'cosmic punch,' Lou doesn...
...just as well, remarked Superior Court Judge Newcomb Condee, because "if Mr. Flaherty had written his column the day after the fight, Mr. Nova would have had to sue a thousand writers." Nova freely admitted that his "cosmic punch" and his well-publicized visits to Yoga Expert "Oom the Omnipotent" were the result of a pressagent's imagination, but he was certainly not a coward. To prove it, Nova's lawyers read into the record a story written after the fight by Hearst Columnist Bob Considine, who said that he saw Nova stand up and take 21 punches...
MICKEY MOUSE first hove into public sight at the wheel of a steamboat rushing round a bend of what appeared to be the Mississippi River. As he swung in for a landing, Mickey tootled a tune-oom-pah-pah, with a tweet now and then-on his signal-whistles,which suddenly had faces that scrooged up as they blew. In the next release, our hero for the first foolish time met Minnie, a mousy young lady who looked as much like Mary Pickford as a rodent could. And all at once, for no apparent reason, there was Pegleg Pete...