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...Britons ever sang the second stanza of God Save the King. Anyone who did sounded as if he were instructing the Almighty in the tone of an irate football coach bawling out a quarterback between halves. It goes: O Lord our God, arise, Scatter his enemies And make them fall; Confound their politics, Frustrate their knavish tricks; On Thee our hopes we fix; God save...
Last week, on King George VI's orders, they got a much mellower substitute stanza, although the first and fourth lines still had a shade of condescension. Appropriately enough, the new verse's first official appearance was at a national service of intercession for the United Nations in St. Paul's Cathedral, with the King, Queen and Clement Attlee heading the congregation : Nor on this land alone -But be God's mercies known From shore to shore. Lord, make the nations see That men should brothers be, And form one family The wide world...
...scoring threats, one by each eleven, highlighted what was otherwise a ragged game offensively. In the opening stanza, Lowell marched to the Leverett 22 yard line before being stopped. The Bunnies' threat came in the waning minutes of the second period and ended inside the Lowell 20 where the last play of the half was an incomplete pass into the end zone...
...than the stories they hang from, and it is a rare footnote that doesn't produce some interesting and unexpected result. For instance, Managing Editor T. S. Matthews dropped a footnote - definitely on the learned side - from a Science story about the chimney swift. The footnote was a stanza from a poem about a curlew, by W. B. Yeats. A researcher who was dispatched to the public library to find and check the verse, being in no mood to go through all of Yeats' works, finally telephoned the English department of Columbia University and asked for their expert...
...visitors wasted no time which, in the first stanza, Trojanowski, Jorgensen, and Connell banged our successive singles to score the first run; Connell was declared out for passing Jorgensen on the base paths. Singles by Dropo, Granato, and Dziadul's followed, Granato being erased trying to go from first to third on Dziadul's infield hit. Veal struck out to end the three run inning...