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...Missouri Waltz' is not among the tunes the band intends to play," Howard said. "We understand that the President doesn't like the song...
...cycle last fall with the re-release of the indifferently successful Rage in Heaven (1941) starring Ingrid Bergman and Robert Montgomery. Surprisingly, it took in more money the second time around than it did in the original release. M-G-M followed up by reissuing Boomtown (1940), The Great Waltz (1938) and The Philadelphia Story (1940). Warner Bros, dusted off King's Row (1941), The Sea Hawk (1940) and The Sea Wolf (1941), and 20th Century-Fox tried another round of Alexander's Ragtime Band...
...mountain-rimmed harbor, Harry Truman looked down on a city seething with excitement. Streets were bright with welcoming banners. Everywhere there were huge posters of Truman. A special Truman stamp had been printed for the occasion. For days, every band in town had been practicing the Missouri Waltz (which Truman has grown to hate as Franklin D. Roosevelt grew to hate Home on the Range...
...their treasure hunt (among other items they must collect: a Winston Churchill cigar butt, one hair from Jack Benny's toupee, another from John L. Lewis' eyebrow, a salt cellar from Senator Pepper, a shilling from Sir Harry Lauder, a copy of the Missouri Waltz, autographed by President Truman and Senator Taft, one of Herbert Hoover's collars). If they bring in everything to NBC's Truth or Consequences next week, the Andersons will collect a washing machine, a man's wardrobe, a diamond ring, a vacuum cleaner, a radio-phonograph, two wrist watches...
...superstructure of the Queen Mary, Captain Illingworth, Master. Her 1,020-ft. length and her towering height dwarfed the battered buildings of the blitzed waterfront. The tugs chugged alongside. Antlike figures made fast the tossed lines. The town band, percussive and perspiring, panted with bravura through the Merry Widow Waltz, Pomp & Circumstance, and struck up the great invocation: Rule, Britannia! Through the mist in some watchers' eyes the colossal Cunarder wavered moltenly. Even Colonel Blimp blew his nose with a Tory blast prolonged by the boom of the great ship's sirens, which are pitched two octaves below...