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...concentration camp in the Philippines, American civilian prisoners and their Japanese captors held a party in 1942 for some departing guards, sharing sukiyaki and singing Auld Lang Syne. "They really liked each other," Prisoner Natalie Crouter wrote in her diary. "The pity of it-that our enemies should tell us this-that prisoners in a prison camp have given them more fun and friendliness than they ever had before. How it lights up the poverty, the barrenness of their past . . ." For one night, she wrote, the Americans and Japanese "were just boys again, sorry for the mess we are mixed...
...case of Auld Lang Syne when McLaughlin returned to the Bronx Saturday night with the Harvard basketball team to play Fordham in Rose Hill Gymnasium, ten minutes away from his old home in Woodlawn. McLaughlin played basketball for the Rams from 1965-69 after graduating from Fordham Prep, a Jesuit high school that his older brothers Walter and Jackie attended before him. Walter also attended Fordham on one of the school's last football scholarships...
...Lies. Cheerfully ignoring critics who called his music 'corny," Lombardo survived as the last great dance-band leader. His New Year's Eve concerts in New York City, which Began in 1929, became an institution. First on radio, then TV, Lombardo's rendition of Auld Lang Syne marked the nation's rite of passage from the old year...
Sing Auld Lang Syne for Skiddy von Stade...
What's the name of the song that Robert Burns has just written? It's called Auld Lang Syne...