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...Duluth, the last survivor of some 2,675,000 Union Army veterans, onetime Drummer Boy Albert Woolson, chalked up another year of his sprightly second century, puffed out 107 candles on his birthday cake...
...West Coasters include such names as Drummer Shelly Manne, 33, Trumpeter-Arranger Shorty Rogers, 29, Saxophonists Gerry Mulligan and Stan Getz, both 26, Pianist Dave Brubeck, 32. At the top of the list stands a skinny (5 ft. 9 in., 135 Ibs.) 24-year-old ex-Army trumpeter named Chet Baker. He was voted the country's best jazz trumpeter in year-end popularity polls by both Down Beat and Metronome...
...back, taking up the melody of "To Hell with Yale," but by now the police had arrived and boarded the busses. They ordered the caravan to a nearby police precinct. The uninhibited enthusiasm of the bandsmen dulled only little. "What do they want, their pictures in Life?" asked a drummer in the back of the third...
...sure as hell was," said the drummer in the back...
Bright Young Men. For all his high-powered selling methods, the nation's No. 1 soap salesman is no backslapping glad-hander in the tradition of the American drummer. At 48, Neil McElroy, a towering 6 ft. 4 in., given to conservative clothes, is a methodical man, with a quick smile and the unruffled air of a winning poker player. His wavy hair is greying, his blue eyes sharp. He keeps his 210 Ibs. in trim shape with plenty of tennis...