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Brahms: Song of Destiny (New York Philharmonic-Symphony, Bruno Walter conducting, with the Westminster Choir; Columbia; 4 sides). Brahmsians have always rated the Schicksalslied, based on Hölderlin's Hyperion's Song of Destiny, among Brahms's most stirring scores. Performance good, recording fair...
...when youthful Lucius swept a tableful of dishes to the floor of Billy Bander's Eating House, crying: "Come, come, Bander, give us your best delft and pewter, Bander, none of this rude crockery!" But Yale authorities were annoyed when Lucius appeared conspicuously in a box at the Hyperion Burlesque Theater, cried: "I am Professor [Henry Hallam] Tweedy of the Yale Divinity School!" and tossed an empty bottle to the stage. Shortly thereafter, Lucius left Yale and entered Harvard...
...into the homestretch (Newmarket's course is dog-legged, not oval, up-&-down, not flat), railbirds saw no Lambert Simnel, no Fairy Prince. In front was Owen Tudor, a belittled 25-to-1 shot, owned by Mrs. Macdonald-Buchanan. Coming from behind, the bay son of the great Hyperion (1933 Derby winner) had zoomed past the field like a Spitfire, finished a length and a half ahead of Morogoro, owned by the Maharani Saheb of Kolhapur...
Silently in the Adriatic dawn a British light squadron felt its way along the Albanian coast to Durazzo, the old brown town 80 miles up the coast from the Strait of Otranto. The destroyer Hyperion was far out in front, scanning for enemy MAS and submarines. Suddenly a mine holed her badly-too badly, clearly, for her to get back to the straits and away before the Italians found her. For two hours she held her S O S, so that the main force could finish its job of shelling Italian batteries on the Albanian coast. Then she called...
...Hyperion was the 35th British destroyer lost outright since the war began. The irony of her loss was that her biggest exploit was catching up, off the Virginia coast one cold day a little more than a year ago, with the German liner Columbus. She, too, was sunk...