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...served as head drummer boy, after "knocking the block" off another drummer boy. Albert was fitted with a blue uniform and shipped to Tennessee in time to play his drum in battle; he went along when General George H. Thomas beat Hood's Confederates in the Battle of Nashville. He was mustered out the next year, one of nearly 2,000,000 Union veterans. He became a wood turner, worked quietly at his trade for 65 years, and retired...
...proud to be the rearguard of such a gallant group of men," he said. But he did not dwell on the drama of the occasion, or say much about that vast host, once so young, so fierce, so frightened, so deadly, and now gone except for him. The drummer boy was so old that none of it really seemed important. He said happily that he had shoveled the walk six times during the winter, and still smoked eight cigars...
...serious collector has whole regiments of infantrymen, squadrons of cavalry. Each must be perfect to the last detail: a handsome, 3-in. drummer in Louis XIV's army is done up in the flaming red, orange and white uniform of the period, with every button, every bit of lace exactly in place. France's handful of craftsmen (among them: an old widow, an ex-jockey, a chef) will spend an entire week fashioning the body for such a figure, then modeling the uniform out of tin leaf. It takes 40 delicate soldering operations to make King Louis...
John Krizna's sharpness made the Mazurka one of the evening's high-points. Usually a fine virtuoso, Krizna is too flashy to be a good supporting partner. Yet his Drummer divertissement in the Graduation Ball was a disappointment--probably because he had to twirl drum sticks as well as execute some complicated steps. The ballet itself was unusually gay and frivolous due to the excellence of the cast. Throughout the entire performance, they projected themselves well and always danced as a group...
Married. Pearl Bailey, 34, Negro blues singer; and Louis Bellson Jr., 28, white drummer in Duke Ellington's band; she for the fourth time ("All this is just crazy but oh my, we're happy"), he for the first; over the threats of Bellson Sr., owner of a music store in Moline, Ill.; in London's Caxton Hall registry, while hundreds of bebop fans waited outside...