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...Budapest's emancipation from Turkey. The program -by the Cleveland Orchestra -was short-waved "live" from Cleveland's Severance Hall, reached Bataan at churchtime Sunday morning. Said Conductor Artur Rodzinski, introducing it: "To you, our salute and our prayers." Said Commentator Kay Halle: "In such moments a hymn of praise and thanksgiving can say more than any words...
Daybreak was greeted by a ship's boy ("on the same principle as having family grace said by the youngest child") with the singing of a hymn. Further similar hymns were sung at almost every half hour of the day. But piety did not prevent the sailors from becoming terrified as the voyage went on, from plotting mutiny and the murder of Columbus. Only the landfall at San Salvador in the Bahamas prevented some kind of outbreak. Nor did piety stop the "white gods" from swindling, kidnapping, murdering and raping Indians before they had been a month...
...listen to Bob Crosby's recording of "South Rampart Street Parade," you'll get an idea of the kind of stimulating, exciting music they played. I don't think it would be in any way sacrilegious to put a nice solid two-beat on tunes like "The Marine's Hymn," "The Caissons Go Rolling Along," and "Anchors Aweigh." In fact, the most patriotic music I ever heard was down at Nick's when a rough and tough little Dixicland outfit picked up "The Stars And Stripes Forever," and really gave it a workout. When they knocked out the final bars...
Unusual among sponsored programs in eschewing mid-program commercials, the Hour regularly closed with a hymn, regularly paused for a seven-minute homily by roly-poly, white-haired W. J. Cameron, spokesman for the philosophic views of the Founder. Thousands of listeners regarded Mr. Cameron as an oracle; others made a household game of seeing who could be first to dial him down...
...subordination and obedience to government. . . ."), a prayer "In Time of War" from the English prayerbook (". . . grant us victory, if it be thy will. . . ."), a prayer from the American Book of Common Prayer ("Almighty God, who has given us this good land for our heritage. . . ."-TIME, Dec. 15). The hymns were militant : God of Our Fathers, Once To Every Man and Nation (James Russell Lowell's great hymn), America and Battle Hymn of the Republic. The sermon was militant: Rector Welles asked God's pardon for past shortcomings, asked power for the task of victory, asked for peace...