Word: songed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Spring came to Germany a month late, and in Berlin, rainy and cold, people were singing a sprightly song called Bel Ami, crowding Hitler's favorite show, Melody in the Night (although Miriam Verne, U.S. dancer who caught Hitler's eye, had gone to Munich to play The Merry Widow). The Rhine suddenly rose, flooded machine gun nests, concrete pillboxes and subterranean construction on Germany's great western fortifications...
...piano, the Luton Choir, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Thomas Beecham conducting; Victor, 12 sides). Delius, like Sibelius, is more highly thought of in England than in the U.S. In this English recording, his foremost champion has put together the C Minor Piano Concerto, the Marche Caprice and the soaring Song of the High Hills. Performance: excellent...
...Sweet Song. The golden egg hatched by sage Mother Goudge is different and much more endearing. Here, the lecherous and predatory decadence of the New World is forgotten in the leafy byways of the Old Country; here, quotations are culled only from the sunny hedgerows of George Meredith, Shakespeare, The Wind in the Willows. World War II-the one which was caused by all the irresponsible behavior described by ardent Father Haydn-is over at last, and Britons are exhausted...
...Navy-Air Force quarrel had been brought out into the open last January, when Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz in his swan song proclaimed: "The Navy of the future will be capable of ... delivering atomic bombs from carrier-based planes." The carrier-admirals for whom he spoke saw the Navy's new bombers operating off 80,000-ton carriers (for one of which Forrestal has approved plans). From these floating airbases, they claimed, they could bomb the enemy from any point in the world. The Air Force quietly seethed...
...Broken Wheel. At the funeral a children's choir sang Thomas Masaryk's favorite folk song, a simple ballad with a haunting tune, Ach Synku, Synku...