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...young fellow, or a small man, was said to be fryin' size. When the cowboy got drunk he liked to have everyone know it - he said he cut his wolf loose. Once four young cowpunchers rode their horses into a New Mexico saloon where an Eastern drummer was having a drink. When the drummer complained to the bartender that the horses jostled him, the bartender snorted, "What the hell y'u doin' in here afoot, anyhow?" When two friendly riders met on the trail, they stopped and sooner or later swung off their horses, squatted on their...
...Wild West a dentist needed no license-his whole stock-in-trade was a pair of pliers and a drummer boy to drown out the yells extracted with the teeth...
...last month when the well-meaning Army decided to set up separate redistribution centers in Harlem and Chicago's down-at-the-heel South Side for Negro troops of the Army Ground Forces (TIME, Oct. 2). Although they are in overcrowded sections and only equipped to the lower-drummer-trade standard, the Hotels Pershing and Theresa, the Army wishfully reasoned, would still be more restful to battle-weary Negroes than any of the 49 fancy hotels taken over for whites in resort centers like Miami, Santa Barbara, Lake Placid...
...history: "The Victory of the Few." On this day, four years before, a few handfuls of R.A.F. fighter pilots had turned back Adolf Hitler's Luftwaffe. Londoners cheered. A Salvation Army band tried to match its tootling against the drumming of the engines, gave it up. But the drummer, his eyes on the sky, thumped and rolled a theme for the scene: the da-da-da-daaa of the V-rhythm...
...Secretary Carol (Ella Raines) realizes that somebody has stopped a lot of mouths with a lot of money. She hounds the nervous bartender. He is killed by a car. She starts pumping the drummer. He is strangled. Escorted by her boss's good friend, Jack Lombard (Franchot Tone), she even locates the maker of the special hat and its elusive wearer. But nothing really becomes clear to her until Good Friend Lombard tips his paranoiac hand...