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...last chorus, a pirate sidekick appears with a small bird-cage, which the king solemnly takes up and proceeds to give the broadsword treatment. To the chorus's strains of "hurrah for the pirate king," the song concludes with the king in an epic pose, with his new weapon, holding it above his head in an outstretched arm, completely oblivious to the fact that it is not Excalibur. It is an inspired and unprecedented touch that instantly reveals the winsome befuddlement of a buccanneer who refuses to plunder orphans and yields at once when Queen Victoria's name is involved...
...Findlay (pop. 36,000), where they have been almost since Marathon was founded in 1887 by 14 local oilmen. Hoopman got a hero's welcome when his Lockheed JetStar touched down last week after the deal was concluded. Findlayites swarmed around him on the tarmac, shouting, "Hoop, Hoop, hurrah!" Said one Wall Street analyst: "People did not want big oil in their town...
...good news arrived officially in a brief but self-explanatory cable from Baranczak to the Slavic Department: "PASSPORT OBTAINED STOP HURRAH...
This was their last hurrah. The defense slipped into the lethargic style of play which hallmarked the lowpoints of the team's dissapointing 12-14 season last winter. Three quick outside jumpshots by Falcon Nancie Roundtree put the game out of reach. A last-minute full court press by Harvard proved too little, too late...
...Illinois Congressman Philip Crane stepped before a bank of microphones and television cameras in Washington and became the first candidate to declare his hopes in the 1980 presidential election. From Crane's opening hurrah down to the final tumultuous hours, TIME has followed the candidates mile by mile through the longest and most arduous campaign in recent history. As always, the goal was to produce clear, perceptive and colorful coverage, an effort that culminates with this week's special election issue...