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...hoot; "The Great Unknown," an insane dandy in frock coat and varnished boots who never looked at or spoke to anyone; "Whispering Riley," who never spoke above a murmur; "Rosy the Tramp" who shaved his whiskers with a candle; Freddy Coombs, who thought he was George Washington; "The Drummer Boy" who never ceased drumming. But maddest and best loved of all was Norton I, Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico...
Handmaiden, Drummer Boy- Because there is a physical limitation on the number of commercial frequencies, Congress in 1927 passed a law declaring the air waves Government property. Wave lengths are merely "loaned" broadcasters for six-month periods. On the grounds that stations do not serve "public interest, convenience and necessity," the Radio Commission may at any time refuse to renew a license. Last week the Commis sion received unfavorable renewal reports on three experimental stations of Henry Ford, no friend of the New Deal. Result, claimed the Herald Tribune, was that radio served "as handmaiden and drummer boy to whatever...
...cello for Manhattan, with Bruno Jaenicke behind him blowing himself red in the face over his French horn. Boston still has Richard Burgin playing first violin. Jean Bedetti first 'cello. In Philadelphia sleek Anton Torello still wields the big bull fiddle; Oscar Schwar, who was a drummer-boy in the Imperial German Army, still presides over the tympani...
During the Napoleonic Wars the British captured a French senior officer named Charles Sandré, sent him to Dartmoor Prison. While his comrades marched and countermarched across Europe, he could see them all in his mind's eye, every rank, every regiment, from drummer boy to Bonaparte. To refresh his memory there were 47,000 other French prisoners in Britain. He began to make a complete set of 16-in. toy models of what...
...could be removed, leather for the boots and belts. Every gaiter, buckle, knapsack was exact. Even the tiny buttons were embossed with the French eagle. He trimmed the mustaches according to each regiment's custom, gave fair hair to the northern troops, black to the southerners. The beardless drummer boy wore wooden shoes, striped trousers, hat like a modern U. S. Army fatigue cap. The sapper of grenadiers of the Imperial Guard wore a big black fur busby, a forked beard, white gaiters, a pure white cassock under a black white-cuffed jacket, crossed white bandoliers. He carried...