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...panama in hand, he shook hands with Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and a battery of China's top diplomats. Then he was led to the 1939 Cadillac where Mme. Chiang awaited him. On the way to the car, a white-gloved brass band struck up The Star-Spangled Banner. The Gissimo, preceding Henry Wallace, kept right on walking. A military aide rushed up, whispered in the Gissimo's ear. The Gissimo continued toward the car. The aide tried again. This time the Gissimo heard, came stiffly to attention while the band finished the last strains...
...keeps her nurse's dress unbuttoned to expose a prettily filled Javanese brassiere. Typical pathos: a blinded Alabamian (named Alabam) who outhears everybody else and who, whenever there is dangerous confusion, cries: "Kin anybody see anything?" Typical use of music: a studio orchestra plays The Star-Spangled Banner, pianissimo, as the stranded stretcher cases watch the ship that refused to take them withdraw into a calendar sunset...
...papers, Captain Joseph Patterson's huge New York Daily News had unkind words to say last week about the U.S. national anthem. The reasons the Daily News advanced for retiring The Star-Spangled Banner were, however, characteristically ambiguous...
...Star-Spangled Banner . . . this ponderous piece . . . was written in celebration of a minor engagement in an inconsequential war-and a war, moreover, against our present allies, the British. From the looks of things, we are going to be fighting on the British side in future wars-far oftener, at any rate, than on the anti-British side. Surely we ought to be able to round up a song which better voices the 20th-century mood of the American people...
...pearly communion of centaur sweat." Betka had had a child before she left Paris: the father was probably the masked aviator, though it might have been three acrobats. But Veronica was not jealous. When she recalled her masked aviator, "her will fluttered like the star-spangled banner...