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...famed of all such U. S. bands is the U. S. Marine Band. Founded in 1798, the "Marines" have played at every inauguration since Thomas Jefferson's day. Glorious in scarlet uniforms, the band plays Hail to the Chief every time the President appears at a big state shindig...
...upon the watch. In the tussle, the watch managed to draw his pistol. As the attackers heaved him overboard, he fired three shots, rousing the sleeping.crew. The marauders fled to their boat, pulled frantically for shore and escaped. Eire's first Navy had won its first shindig...
Last week Canada Dry staged a birthday broadcast and shindig at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria for its experts of the year, guests and regulars, and for close friends and associates of Information Please. With Postmaster James Aloysius Farley as the guest, Kieran, Adams & Levant for the first time in their career missed not a single question (although Jim Farley caused a few anxious moments by hemming & hawing over the identity of faces on new U. S. stamp issues...
...bells of Westminster Abbey and other London belfries. These meetings have been held every year since 1637. Even London's great plague of 1665, and the fire of 1666, failed to keep the College Youths from their appointed bongfest. Last week, at the Society's 302nd annual shindig, the "Bore War" did what fire and plague could not. This time the members did their Stedman Caters and Oxford Singles with hand bells in the upstairs room of a blacked-out London pub. Reason: open-air change-ringing might drown out air-raid sirens...
Decade ago Manhattan Publicity Counselor Harry Bruno attended an airmen's wine & dine shindig, cracked that he thought fliers were strong, silent, quiet birdmen. Result: "The Ancient & Secret Order of Quiet Birdmen," with such noted members as Charles Lindbergh, Roscoe Turner, the late Wiley Post. Qualifications: good flying, good fellowship. Chief function: convivial hell-raising...