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...Alley was crowding Communism's anthem, The Internationale. Last week, Manhattan's Communist Daily Worker printed words and music of a catchy new song which "can be sung with great effect by large numbers of people." The composers: Hans Leo Hassler and Johann Sebastian Bach. The lyricist: Balladeer Tom Glazer, onetime baritone of the "Priority Ramblers," the United Federal Workers Union's singing team. Sample...
Hoisting of the new national banner, communal singing of India's new national anthem, and a recitation of the citizen's pledge of acceptance will highlight a program which also includes three speeches...
...fight lasted three hours. Escorted by three more destroyers and a cruiser which had rushed to the scene, the Exodus limped into Haifa harbor. As they were transferred to another ship which was to return them to France, where they had embarked, the refugees doggedly sang the Zionist anthem Hatikvah ("Our hope is still not lost...
...like a crowded Turkish bath. A thermometer near the ringside, under the furious glow of the ring lights, read 88°. A crowd that paid $422,918 to get in (double the take of any previous indoor fight) was packed shoulder to shoulder. The organ pumped out the National Anthem, Zale stood at attention like everybody else, but Rocky Graziano, the reform-school graduate from Manhattan's Lower East Side, went right on dancing and sparring in his corner...
...into Smith's hands are such members of the national and collegiate press as have encouraged the untruth that the resistance to Smith was disorderly and primarily Communist. If Communists were among the demonstrators, good for them. It all went like water-music, and the singing of the National Anthem at the end was not merely for publicity. Richard Wilbur Andre du Bouchet Thomas W. Wilcox William B. Whiteside