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...Kent with the Micronite Filter; the rousing Big Gallon song, the Cities Service Suite; Newport Filter Cigarettes, Newport Filter Cigarettes; the Bon Ami Jet Spray Sonata; and the battle hymn of York Imperial-size Cigarettes. Soon radio and TV audiences will be hearing his latest creation-the new national anthem of the American Gas Association-several thousand times a week...
...ransom delegation was welcomed with hand-rubbing expectation. Castro himself saw to the customers, and after 5½ hours of haggling agreed to release 60 men-all of them sick or wounded. As the pathetic captives arrived in Miami, 6,000 weeping exiles tried to sing the Cuban national anthem. The sight of the men choked it off; some were on crutches, one man bravely saluted with his left hand -his right arm had been shot away...
Dainty Step. In Algiers, a crowd of European demonstrators marched down the Rue d'Isly, defiantly chorusing the stirring S.A.O. anthem, Chant des Afri cains. Facing them was a line of 30 young, battle-weary French soldiers, ten of them Moslems. Shots rang out from a corner balcony, and a soldier dropped to the street. Instantly, the others emptied their machine pistols at the marchers...
...louder very slowly and gradually, over a long period of time--a sort of basso "Bolero." The Club stops (musically) in Korea, China, The Philippines, and Thailand, but it sounds as if it has never escaped the office of G. Schirmers in New York. Only the Indian anthem by Sir Rabindranath Tagore, Khoro Bayu Boy Bege ("The Optimist Against Odds") breaks loose: a vigorous unison from start to stop suggests the musically muscular Soviet Army Chorus, with which, incidentally, the Glee Club compares quite favorably. Before covering Italy, Germany, France, and England on Side Two, the Club creates a various...
...musicians played in sweaters and slacks. In Seville, the orchestra arrived during a flood (the concert became a benefit for flood victims), and in Aleppo, Syria, a bomb exploded outside the hall during the concert. Inside, the orchestra played calmly through a new orchestral version of the Syrian national anthem, hastily drafted by Conductor Hanson. Syrians liked it so much that it will probably be adopted as the official orchestral version...