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...bless my dearest country," wrote Victoria in her diary that night, "which has shown itself so great today...
...message at the Manhattan radio studio simply asked its musical director to call a Brooklyn telephone number-no name given. When he called, a woman's voice asked, "Is this Meredith Willson?" Assured that it was, the woman said reverently, "May the good Lord bless and keep you," and then hung...
Ever since Iowa-born Meredith Willson, 49, wrote May the Good Lord Bless and Keep You as a closing number ("something benedictory") for Tallulah Bankhead's The Big Show last fall, he has been flooded with up to 2,000 fan letters a week. Once when he tried "to give it a little beat," the letters demanded that he "quit jazzing up that hymn." Says somewhat surprised Composer Willson, who based the song on his mother's parting blessing to her Mason City Sunday-school pupils: "It's not a hymn, it's not hillbilly...
...have no political aspirations whatever. I do not intend to run for any political office. I hope that my name will never be used in a political way." He added: "The only politics I have is contained in a simple phrase known to all of you-God Bless America." The crowd roared...
...Bless what there is for being...