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...them, editors of the shelved-for-the-duration Crimson, have wandered back to Plympton Street on furloughs and 60-hour passes and are now digging out the old form book and banner and masthead...
...with the top down, and being protected by a gang of Secret Service men." I was suddenly aware of the fact that for this 16-year-old, as for other thousands of his age and younger, the Secret Service guards, the White House, the President and the Star-Spangled Banner had always been associated with only one man, Franklin Delano Roosevelt...
...India's capital this week there was a beginning of military unity. Over New Delhi, long a cauldron of inter-and intra-Allied intrigue for military power and prestige, floated the flag of Admiral the Lord Louis Mountbatten. The banner, a phoenix, centered on the Union Jack where the crosses of Saints George, Andrew and Patrick intersect, signified official constitution of the Allied Command in Southeast Asia. It implied more: that hereafter, in the "Battle of Delhi," the Jap was to be the only enemy...
...Army band slowly played The Star-Spangled Banner. A moment of silence; four rolls from muffled drums; taps from a soldier's bugle. The President's party shuffled back to the line of black limousines. The handful of spectators wandered off. Arlington Cemetery's bare trees shivered in the wind...
...million Allied servicemen in & out of South Africa's busiest wartime port. Standing on Durban's quays in her invariable white dress and red hat, Perla Siedle amplifies her vibrant soprano with a ship's megaphone. Yanks ask for God Bless America, The Star-Spangled Banner, Tommies for There'll Always Be An England. Australians want Waltzing Matilda. South Africans prefer their own Afrikander folk songs like Sarie Marais. Czechs, Poles and Greeks like opera arias...