Word: rossa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nomenology. In The Bronx, Alexander Himler, weary of cracks about the Hangman of the Gestapo, had his name legally changed to Alexander Hamilton. In Baltimore, the Rossa McGradys named their new son Alert because he was born during one. With the Georgia Department of Health was filed a birth certificate for Extra White...
...wears his chin in a brace, is called "official singer" for the U.S. survivors of the International Brigades of the Loyalists. Singer van der Schelling is backed by an "Exiles Chorus" directed by Earl Robinson (Ballad for Americans). Some of the songs-the Spanish Joven Guardia, the Italian Guardia Rossa, the German Thaelmann-Bataillon, the French Au Devant de la Vie (music by Soviet Composer Dmitri Shostakovich)-were composed during the Spanish War. Most of them are in rough, plodding march time. The one which gives the album its name was composed by a German, Eberhard Schmitt, in the camp...