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...Behind McInally:" If there were a theme song to be sung about Curtin's illustrious grid career at Harvard, that would...
...original recordings, careful attention was paid to correct pitch, a task necessary because the speed of the old 78s varied among individual records. The collection, covering the years from 1906 to 1920, consists mainly of Italian and French opera and salon music, with half a dozen parlor songs sung approximately in English. "Vecchia zimarra, senti" the bass "Coat Song" from La Boheme, and "Magische Note," an aria from Goldmark's Queen of Sheba that contains a rare recorded example of Caruso's using falsetto, are the most unusual items. A pair of "Celeste Aidas" (1906 and 1908) raises...
...Washington staff in 1957 and became bureau chief four years later. The friendship is good-humored. TerHorst helps write some of the better ditties crooned at Washington's annual Gridiron Club dinner, and one recent effort included this spoof of Gerald Ford's close ties to business, sung to the tune of America the Beautiful: "Oh beautiful for Tel and Tel . . . for Pontiac and Cadillac, and good ole Jerry Ford." TerHorst had written two-thirds of an unofficial Ford biography when he was tapped for his new job, and says he still hopes to complete the book this...
...Englishman who happened to be caught up in the crowd and whizzed off to one of the stadia, there was the bittersweet sensation of seeming to hear, sung by millions, a song he had composed himself and for which he was getting no royalties. Not that England ever forced football on anyone except savages who had to be weaned from bloodier sports: the game has sold itself to civilized countries as effectively as whisky or Coca-Cola. Indeed football is the only international language, apart from...
...started by detonated mines and exploding demolition charges were eating up miles of brown, sun-withered grain and turning telephone poles into sticks of flame. A column of Israeli tanks rolled by, flags flying. The crews waved perfunctorily, unlike the withdrawal from the Suez, where the soldiers had smiled, sung and even danced as they left. In Egypt, moreover, nobody spoke of having to return...