Word: tune
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...captivity Hess grew moody, despondent; he exploded in anger fits. He was allowed a radio, could tune in any country he wanted. When he tuned in BBC news programs he held the volume at a whisper: in Germany the penalty for listening to BBC was death. As he listened he would yell "Lies! All Lies!" He boasted to British officials that he could tell them any thing they wanted to know about German policy, even about German policy formed while he was in Scotland. His mind, he said, worked precisely as Hitler's worked. Given any problems, any situations...
Added starters: ten Christmas carols, some of the great German chorals whose sweep and power make them ideal for congregational singing. Many an old hymn has changed its tune. Hymns that were too high-pitched for most singers have been set in a lower key. Except in cases where the hymn is one of praise or prayer, Amen has been dropped from endings...
Give Out! is the work of one Eric Posselt, who thought there ought to be a book of songs sung by servicemen, not at them. He ruled out Tin Pan Alley and Hollywood tunes (except for parodies masculine or martial), tracked down the favorites of the corps and the camps. The collection includes the solemn, the irreverent, the rowdy. There is a long-faced hymn of high resolve by Robert E. Sherwood (Tune: The Battle Hymn of the Republic). Another contributor is Beatrice Ayer Patton (wife of General "Blood & Guts"), whose March of the Armored Corps is appropriately scored...
...program should consist of music from various United Nations: China; Britain (represented preferably by German-born Handel's Hallelujah Chorus); France (represented in part by Belgian-born Cesar Franck's Pièce Heroique); Russia (Shostakovich and Tchaikovsky); the U.S. (America the Beautiful, the old European psalm-tune Old Hundred, Home Sweet Home and Ballad for Americans...
...News Syndicate to keep controversial issues out of his strips. He ignored the orders because 1) he is publicity-wise, knows the value of having his strip talked about; 2) he is an all-out, old-line conservative Republican himself; 3) he finds it difficult to keep Annie "in tune with the times" and simultaneously untouched "by the pressures of social and political changes...