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...Duffy's Tavern (TIME, June 21) last week the bird laughed, whistled, sneezed and sang The Star-Spangled Banner. At the preshow rehearsal, with a full audience, the feathered guest star was in especially fine form. Raffles pondered the best lines of Duffy's star, rumpled Ed Gardner, and cooed: "Hello, darling." Once, when the audience guffawed at a Gardner quip, the petulant bird fixed a baleful eye on the customers and shouted: "Quiet!" It brought down the house. On Fred Allen's program last spring Raffles, who is crow-size, flew away with the show...
...forefathers which was given to Israel for eternal heritage by the Lord, blessed be His name, with oath and covenant." The Vice President, his voice low, squirmed through a diplomatically minimum answer and the rabbis took trolley cars to the Lincoln Memorial. Across the Mall rolled the Star-Spangled Banner, chanted in the strange, almost sobbing intonation of Hebrew. Then the rabbis faded out of sight and out of mind...
Even many of Tin Pan Alley's bestsellers, such tunes as You'll Never Know, Comin' in on a Wing and a Prayer, There's a Star-Spangled Banner Waving Somewhere, were fragrant with hillbilly spirit. All over the country were the Appalachian accents of the geetar and the country fiddle...
...army chief, awaiting orders to join the great Red offensive. Waiting with him was his Russian-armed Czech army, tough, confident, thirsty for revenge. The army's heart was in the green valleys and forests of its native land. The army's motto was on its banner: Verni Zustaneme-We Remain Faithful...
...hymn again. In a Manhattan radio program to be short-waved to Italy, Arturo Toscanini conducted the NBC Symphony in his own special arrangement of the song, added the first movement of Beethoven's Fifth (V for Victory) Symphony, the overture to William Tell, The Star-Spangled Banner, and then broke into tears. Toscanini called his program "Victory, Act I." He Was preparing two more acts...