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While visiting the Beethoven shrine, the great Paderewski on being asked to play the Moonlight Sonata on Beethoven's piano, modestly replied: "I am not worthy to touch it." But "Give 'em Hell" Harry sat right down and played a sonata of Mozart's on Mozart's own piano, right in front of Mozart's portrait. I can imagine the irascible ghost of Wagner muttering "Squirrelhead...
After the Tuesday afternoon Naval Commissioning Ceremany there will be a moonlight cruise for seniors and dates, as well as families and friends. Drinks will be available aboard the Sea Belle, and a motorcycle escort will lead the way there...
...Watch the Snake!" Moments later, McKeon took the occasion for a lecture. "Here's something to remember," he sang out. "When you're in water in combat never go out in the middle. You make a perfect target, especially on a moonlight night. Keep close to the shore. Keep moving or you will bog down." Not everyone heard him; there was too much confusion. Some of the boots tried to joke. One yelled: "Hey, something just swam between my legs!" Another found a short piece of rope and waved it, shouting: "Watch the snake! Watch the snake...
...moonlight's fair tonight along the Wabash...
Just twelve hours later some 1,000 Israeli troops, their faces blackened against the bright moonlight, bounced south by truck past the El Auja crossroads. Their target was an Egyptian outpost that was set on the lower slopes of an Egyptian hill but inside the demilitarized Israeli territory. A network of trenches, gun emplacements and barbed-wire barricades linked the forward post with stronger Egyptian positions around the hilltop...