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...another, the orchestra played The Fireman's Quadrille, during which a fire alarm clanged, men in helmets dragged in hoses, doused real water on fake blaze. Such was unmusical America of the 19th Century, as portrayed by David Ewen in Music Comes to America (Thomas Y. Crowell; $3). Picturing a young nation's groping progress toward musical maturity, the story is by turns comic, valiant, humiliating, prideful. No scholarly treatise, not even an error-free* record, the book is none the less an engrossing, vivid history (as Mark Sullivan might tell it) of music's impact...
...mile offshore a submarine lay on the surface, pouring shells at the island. Already two tankers in the harbor were on fire; flaming oil spread over the water. Said Photographer White: "The harbor scene was like a raging forest fire right in your own front yard. . . . The blaze was shooting up high over the waterfront. . . . I could see the decks of [one] ship as a mass of flames...
...Blaze of Glory...
...money Russ deserves as much credit as Colin Kelly or Buzz Wagner. "Going out in a blaze of glory" has a new meaning...
Hong Kong, born of opium and piracy, fat with a century's pleasure and profit, died last week in a blaze of glory...