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...Palmer never missed a Sunday at the Broadway Baptist Church back home in Fort Worth. His favorite hymn is still Take Your Burdens to the Lord and Leave Them There. In Sixth Ward grade school Sam was a boy soprano; at Texas Christian University, student manager of the Horned Frog football team because he was too light to play. One day freckled, redheaded Sam Palmer learned to fly. He left college to be an Army pilot...
Thus, prophetically, did the passionate choruses of Garibaldi serenade their Austrian oppressors back in 1866, when most of northern Italy was still under the yoke. Garibaldi's War Hymn lived on as one of the most stirring of Italy's patriotic airs until Mussolini suppressed it in favor of the Fascist Giovinezza...
Last week the son of a Garibaldi veteran decided it was time to sound Garibaldi's hymn again. In a Manhattan radio program to be short-waved to Italy, Arturo Toscanini conducted the NBC Symphony in his own special arrangement of the song, added the first movement of Beethoven's Fifth (V for Victory) Symphony, the overture to William Tell, The Star-Spangled Banner, and then broke into tears. Toscanini called his program "Victory, Act I." He Was preparing two more acts...
...William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury, once observed: "The singing of Amen at the end of a hymn always is a bore-why do we keep on doing...
...book of songs sung by servicemen, not at them. He ruled out Tin Pan Alley and Hollywood tunes (except for parodies masculine or martial), tracked down the favorites of the corps and the camps. The collection includes the solemn, the irreverent, the rowdy. There is a long-faced hymn of high resolve by Robert E. Sherwood (Tune: The Battle Hymn of the Republic). Another contributor is Beatrice Ayer Patton (wife of General "Blood & Guts"), whose March of the Armored Corps is appropriately scored for pistol...