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...been more than a year since Major Glenn Miller, the Army's swing Sousa of World War II, was lost in a plane crash. But last week 34 of his G.I. musicians, now civilians, opened on Broadway-still calling themselves the Glenn Miller Orchestra. A public that had not forgotten the Miller name (his orchestra was voted the nation's No. 1 sweet band in 1941) packed the house. The G.I.s, a little worried about how the public would feel about them, found the old Miller theme song still described it: In the Mood...
...indigenous to the Long Island landscape as the oil wells atop Signal Hill. A man who started as an infant-prodigy cornetist and went on to conduct radio's Lucky Strike dance orchestra, Rolfe took over the Long Beach Band last year when its founder, an oldtime Sousa (cornet) soloist named Herbert Lincoln Clarke, decided to retire...
Beethoven's Flame. Famous exponents of Chaminade's music included Nellie Melba and John Philip Sousa, who liked to play the tiny piano pieces in full brass-band arrangements. At the height of Chaminade's vogue, in the early 1900s, her U.S. feminine admirers had formed more than 200 "Chaminade Clubs." Her Scarf Dance ended by selling over five million copies...
...nowhere appeared three terrified small boys. With a quavering cry of "Mr. Sousa!" they spit, as one man, on the sidewalk and fled for their lives...
...Instantly the sky blazed with flame. My father . . . fired and reloaded and fired again. . . . My mother . . . screamed frantically." Dropping his empty gun, father leaped into a police car, "zigzagged wildly from curb to curb" in hot pursuit. The screaming made Mrs. Sousa tense, as she lay in bed drinking bottled beer. Father tossed the captured children on to the grass "as if they were bags of mail." "These kids ought to be in Sing Sing," he snarled. "Won't you children come in for a little ice cream?" called Mrs. Sousa from her window...