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...professor preserved his humiliation in a song called The Lone Fish Ball, which was published in Harper's Monthly (1855). It was later plugged by the Harvard boys, taken up by Boston's Irish societies, and even translated into Italian for an opera co-authored by James Russell Lowell. During the Civil War, Union soldiers sang Professor Lane's song as often as doughboys of 1918 sang Oh, How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning...
...bouncy music of the old song has been discarded for a minor-keyed tune. The refurbished lyrics are by Songwriter Hy Zaret, who recalls: "I first heard The Lone Fish Ball at a party about a year ago. . . . [It] knocked me over. . . . My version was a lot different . . . but I decided I'd like to use some of the old lines. . . . I'd heard that James Russell Lowell had done a version of it. If Lowell can do it, Hy Zaret can . . . I figured...
Five thousand U.S. artillery shells rained down on Coblenz - one of them blowing to smithereens a statue of Emperor Wilhelm I. Then, one evening, a lone U.S. medium tank equipped with a loudspeaker rolled up to the Moselle river bank and hurled a surrender ultimatum across to the survivors of the Coblenz garrison. There was no answer...
...fact that the talks were still going on this week represented a considerable gain. For Andrei Vishinsky, the mild-mannered, tough-minded Soviet Vice Commissar of Foreign Affairs, had previously played a lone hand in Bucharest, ignoring the Allied Commission and dealing directly with young King Mihai. Perhaps Joseph Stalin needed time to bring his bureaucracy into line with the Yalta doctrine, just as Franklin Roosevelt had needed time to bring his abstentionist State Department into line with the new U.S. policy of responsibility in Europe...
...response to all the criticism, Moscow did not explode and go its lone way, as it certainly would have done in the past. Instead, the Russians quietly released Mme. Tomasz Arciszewska, wife of the London Poles', anti-Russian Premier, whose arrest in Poland had touched off a storm of British protest. If Yalta had done nothing else, it had put the Russians on their best public behavior...