Word: yodeler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There is no mountain worthy of the name within hundreds of miles, but the townsfolk of New Glarus, Wis. (pop. 1,068) like to get out and yodel. They also blow ten-foot Alphorns made from fir logs, build houses with high roofs typical of the Swiss Alps, talk a Schweizer-deutsch patois, hang sweet-chiming Swiss bells around the necks of their innumerable brown Swiss cows, and produce vast quantities of Swiss cheese and Swiss lace...
Near by, built directly against the rough mountainside, was the Festspielhaus, through whose cavernous yard had boomed the theatrical damnation of Dr. Faust. The G.I. metamorphosis had turned it into a movie house, nostalgically named the Roxy. And around Salzburg's steep Bierjodelgasse (Beer-Yodel-Street) G.I.s noisily scouted for beer gardens...
...bolster the German east front. Last week Guderian had to draft a field marshal from the east, where he had stopped the Russians before Warsaw, to try to stem the Allied tides in the west. The new oberbefehlshaber was stocky, monocled, 53-year-old Walter von Model (rhymes with yodel), popular in Germany, a Hitler-Himmler favorite as well. Model threw his energies into putting up a stiff delaying action on the Moselle River, to gain time. General Patton's Third Army crossed the Moselle last week but suffered heavy losses doing it, cleared a long section...
...describes the rest of the show: "First I hits it up on my banjo, and I wow 'em. Then I do a number with the guit-tar and play the French harp and sing, all at the same time. Then somebody hollers 'Let's see her yodel,' and I obliges...
...Marshall Bartholomew, the Yale singers will open the program with a "double-yodel rendition" of "Switzer Boy." Other outstanding songs to be presented by the Eli Glee Club are "I Don't Belong To You" and "Rosemary," both arranged by the Yale conductor, and a medley of songs of the military services...