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Manhattan's WNEW last week began broadcasting a series of six one-minute jingles about the United Nations. WNEW has also made transcriptions of the songs for the use of other stations in the U.S. and in other English-speaking countries. They were written by Hy Zaret and Lou Singer, authors of WNEW's Little Songs About Big Subjects.* Sample lyric...
Eliot's big, competent football team ran into considerably more trouble than it had expected yesterday, but it still had enough power to beat a scrappy Adams eleven, 18 to 8: Hy Brodgen and Herb Eckenrath scored in the first half to offset and Adams safety, and John Boyce went over for the Navy in the third period...
Meanwhile the big Eliot line stifled the Puritan attack and has kept its end zone unsullied for the whole season to date. With Backs Hy Brodgen and Bill Garrett and Guard John Wolf benched by injuries from Tuesday's clash, the Navy team was excusing itself after the game, for not running up a bigger score...
...bouncy music of the old song has been discarded for a minor-keyed tune. The refurbished lyrics are by Songwriter Hy Zaret, who recalls: "I first heard The Lone Fish Ball at a party about a year ago. . . . [It] knocked me over. . . . My version was a lot different . . . but I decided I'd like to use some of the old lines. . . . I'd heard that James Russell Lowell had done a version of it. If Lowell can do it, Hy Zaret can . . . I figured...
Ships and Bombs. D-day was Aug. 15. It began in cloudy night with a crescent moon shining fitfully through the overcast upon calm sea. Before the day was 30 minutes old the attack began with a commando landing on the Hyères Islands off Cap Bénat-where the now sunken French fleet used to take its exercise on sunny days. A few hours later more parachutists and gliders landed beyond the Monts des Maures -the Moorish Mountains-that rise between Toulon and Saint-Raphael...