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...body and cheered. Then they sang For He's a Jolly Good Fellow. This was too much for veteran Laborite backbencher George Griffith. He burst into the Red Flag. Soon all the Government members joined in. Through the ancient chamber rang the words of the left-wing inspirational hymn (tune: O, Tannenbaum...
Sheaves to Rye. Three trombonists-blond Eddie Anderson (from Sonny Dunham's band), slicked Norman Conley (Eddie Stone's) and curly-haired Chuck Maxon (Paul Whiteman's)-growled "Pedal G," their lowest possible note. The reeds began to wail. When the melody of the old hymn, Bringing in the Sheaves, roared through, Brick nodded happily: "It's in there." He lit a cigaret, drank a glass of water and visited the control room, all the time directing the band with his pinkie, and rocking his head like a strutting turkey gobbler...
Harvard's Glee Club made its selections, for the most part, in the spirit of the Popes, with the accent on the popular, the spirited, and the original. It fortunately recognized that the "Thanksgiving Hymn" it used last year had no place in a champagne glass. Harvard hit its stride in the Pops manner with Gershwin, and in "The Golden Trumpeter" it substituted for "Hey. Mac, where are the glass flowers?" the more appropriate "Where's Scollay Square?" A good time was enjoyed by all, the lady at the next table would remark...
...concerts will consist of the following selections: "Harvard Hymn" by William Howard Payne '69; "On Thou the Central Orb" by Gibbons; "Three Italian Madrigals," one by Mounteverdi and two by Gastoldi; "Pianola D'Amore" from "Four Choral Patterns from the New Yorker" by Irving G. Fine '38 with verse by David McCord '21; and choruses from "Patience" by Gilbert and Sullivan...
After the war started, the President missed vestry meetings more & more often. But whenever he was at Hyde Park, he tried to get to Sunday services, where he lustily joined in the hymn-singing (among his favorites: 0 God, Our Help in Ages Past; Faith of Our Fathers; 0 Master, Let Me Walk with Thee}. His favorite text was the 13th chapter of I Corinthians, which ends: "And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity...