Music: The Pumpers

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Oh, Doppel-gedickel, gerohrgedeckt, Gerohrgedeckt, gerohrgedeckt, Oh, Doppel-gedickel, gerohrgedeckt, Gerohrgedeckt, ge-doo. The leonine head and thick-lensed spectacles of Archer Gibson, private organist for Charles Michael Schwab, bobbed over the keys of a small portable organ. The broad back of Author-Aeronaut Samuel Taylor Moore (Hetty Green) rose and fell over the pump-handle projecting from the organ's side. Some 80 tycoons, lesser businessmen, artists and writers boomed out their official anthem (chorus given above*) to the rhythmic accompaniment of pounded beer mugs in a big private dining room of the Hotel Brevoort, Manhattan. It...

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