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...hand, his 13-year-old son stepped up to the console, took his father's place. Six years later Son Raymond Huntington Woodman became organist at First Presbyterian Church, Brooklyn. He is still there, a goateed, white-haired, 74-year-oldster who has written many a song, anthem and organ piece, played more than 50,000 numbers. Genteel Organist Woodman says: "When I first went into music it was regarded as equivalent to retiring from social life. Many well-known musicians of bad habits and poor principles had so harmed the profession that the public held it in little...
...playing. At a special service in his Cathedral of St. John the Divine, Bishop William Thomas Manning told the organists there is a "disastrous" lack of congregational singing in the U. S. The Guild announced the winners of two $100 prize contests: Chicago's Porter Heaps for an anthem, A Thanksgiving for All Created Things, and Scranton's Leon Verrees for a choral improvisation on O God, Our Help in Ages Past. Finally, Guild members united in indignantly rejecting a proposal that they affiliate with the American Federation of Labor...
TIME no doubt, reported correctly when it said that Mrs. Tubman sang the national anthem "while . . . the crowd of 1,000 looked on, munching their lunches...
...picture of a nation's citizens disrespectfully munching sandwiches and looking on, cow-like while that nation's own anthem is being sung is symbolic of the sleazy state to which American patriotism has sunk...
...platoon of his own men. Set apart at the very end was Marshal Pilsudski's own cavalry regiment. Eyes snapped right, flags dipped, and the muffled drums rolled, there was no other sound. Only when the parade was over did an army band mournfully play the national anthem, "Jeszcse Polska Nie Zginela" and follow it with "We, the First Brigade," the special hymn of the Pilsudski Legion...