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...along the line of march, Communist messengers ran up & down relaying orders. At Hibiya Park, one of the parade's non-Communist organizers worriedly pleaded through an improvised megaphone for the marchers to disband and go home. But he was scarcely heard above the steady chant of the Communists. "Yankee, go home!" they screamed, "Yankee, go home!" The Reds whipped nearly 10,000 into a follow-the-leader frenzy and suddenly turned Tokyo's May Day observance into an anti-American riot...
...folk song and square dance fields, has now interested the Dunces in music of the Temperance period. "Some pretty good musicians poured their souls into such stuff," he says, "and it's rarely performed now." One Temperance song the Dunces now use is "Sign Tonight", a deadly serious chant about the pledge to banish rum forever. Saletan thinks college audiences will like that sort of music, if only for its antique interest...
...statesman, too? It is still too early to tell. But some of his countrymen are already calling him "the Eisenhower of the Pacific." When he showed up on Manila's docks last week to welcome home his election policemen, the crowd mobbed him and sent up a chant: "Mabuhay [long live] Magsaysay, our next President...
...MYSTIC CHANT...
...OPEN CHANT...