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From the time he composed God Bless America, Berlin was determined not to make money on the song. To Kate Smith, for her exclusive use on the radio, he gave his number gratis. When his music publishing house brought out the song, he paid himself the unheard of royalty of 8^ on every sheet, announced that his profits would go to the Boy and Girl Scouts of America. Meantime, many a Kate Smith listener, under the delusion she owned the song, addressed to her peremptory demands for cash to start gasoline stations and the like...
Best bet was that Hitler would use everything-all these methods and more as yet unheard of. Last week's news dispelled the wishful thinking of those who thought delay meant defeat; Adolf Hitler may want bad weather to cover his invasion. One thing was certain: just as Hitler used parachutists to confuse the enemy's rear in the Lowlands, and tanks to confuse their rear in France, he was using mass air raids to do the same thing in Britain. When the rear is in panic, Adolf Hitler strikes at the front...
...planned fireworks display that did not work out as it was supposed to, the whole show appealed to a U. S. sense of humor, with booms exploding ahead of time, crowds wandering off to watch a foot race as the well-rehearsed Fourth of July oration came to an unheard climax, experts puzzling over political fizzles, like kids trying to figure out why a firecracker had not gone...
...names "Beethoven," "Fifth" and "Toscanini" were enough to sell the album eight unseen (and surface unheard...
...Remains' descriptive powers, but this second part of the book is, no more than the first, merely another work of realism intended to horrify readers with the horror of war. The pitiful French advance positions pulverized over a sector miles wide, miles deep by a bombardment of unheard of intensity; the silence finally falling "like a sheet laid upon the face of a dead man," the grey German assault lines straggling like smoke wisps from their trenches, slowly growing into trudging multitudes: from all this Remains turns to French headquarters, where a stiff-necked major refuses to admit...