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It was as if every instrument in the band was playing at once. In the huge cacophony the deep notes of the melody were almost drowned out. From platform, press and radio voices roared, barked, shrilled, pleaded. Newspapers carried full-page ads: Wendell Willkie Reneges. . . . This Is the Last Chance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Election: The Last Seven Days | 11/11/1940 | See Source »

With organ and trumpeters pealing melody, a congregation of 12,000 joined in singing God of Our Fathers as a long, brilliant procession streamed into the Kansas City Municipal Auditorium's vast red, white & blue arena. In the army marched bishops from five continents, some in white rochets, some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Triennial in a Warring World | 10/21/1940 | See Source »

Chief headache that God Bless America has brought on is a wave of snide anti-Semitism directed at Composer Berlin. Frequent are the letters to Collins berating him as an Irishman for swelling Jewish coffers. Not much more subtle have been the cracks of journalistic small fry such as W...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Badgered Ballad | 9/30/1940 | See Source »

Charlie Chaplin had no musical training, cannot read a note. But he plays the piano well for an amateur, the violin and concertina very well. Chaplin composes by humming, whistling or playing his themes on a piano while someone takes his tunes down. For The Great Dictator, his first picture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Composer Chaplin | 9/9/1940 | See Source »

My Love Came Back (Warner) is based on the supposition that if a group of down-at-lip jazzbabies suddenly began swinging such melodies as Liszt's Second Hungarian Rhapsody, a Chopin Nocturne, and Mendelssohn's violin Concerto in E Minor, their daring would astound and conquer the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jul. 22, 1940 | 7/22/1940 | See Source »

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