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...samba has been Brazil's favorite rhythm so long that even hymns and the national anthem now bounce in samba time. Last week in Rio de Janeiro for the first time in six years, a tango swept the town. Cariocas crowded the Teatro Carlos Gomez, an old vaudeville house in the old quarter of downtown Rio to hear a pretty, black-eyed Argentine import named Chola Luna sing the hit tune Adiós, Pampa...
...transports sailed for Cyprus next morning, their unwilling passengers defiantly sang the Zionist anthem Hatikvah: "Yet is our hope not lost, our ancient hope, to dwell in the land of our fathers, in the city where David encamped...
...laden houses of the little mining town of Mountain Ash were ugly and dirty as ever. But the faces of the miners, and their families, were scrubbed clean and the mines were idle. From the town rose loved Welsh songs like Jenny Jones, Men of Harlech and the Welsh anthem, Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau-meaning Land of My Fathers...
...Geisha houses, brightly kimonoed girls plucked their banjo-like samisen and trilled sentimental Japanese favorites like the Rain Blues, the Song of Beauty, the Innocence Duet. When a boisterous American asked for the Japanese national anthem, the girls refused but obliged with You Are My Sunshine. Toshiko Yamaguchi, once one of Japan's most popular singers, came home from a Shanghai internment camp with a new repertoire that included Star Dust...
...they talked, a well-organized demonstration gathered. Singly, in pairs and in small groups, at first mostly women & children, Hamburgers streamed into the Rathausmarkt outside Petersen's office. Within an hour 4,000 embittered Ausgebombte (bombed outs) were singing the outlawed national anthem Deutschland über Alles, knocking hats off Mitbürger who kept their heads covered during the singing. The crowd yelled: "We're not Indians, not coolies, we must be treated like Germans." Other slogans repeated the contents of numerous anti-Semitic chain letters which have been making the rounds of the city recently. Shouts...