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...other questionable elements, China faces the fifth-column problem in an acute form, and Chiang is acutely conscious of it. He refers his people not to the fall of France but to Chinese history: "You should instruct our people to take lessons from the annals of the Sung and Ming Dynasties. The fall of these two dynasties was not caused by outside enemies with a superior force, but by a dispirited and cowardly minority in the governing class and the society of the time. . . . If we do not destroy ourselves, no outside force can destroy us." He warns...
Convicts, cowboys, housemaids, hillbillies have sung for him, and the Ballad Hunter programs were chosen from the 12,000 records he has given to the Archive...
...promote close harmony-as she is sung by Saturday-night whiskey tenors and beery baritones-a device was on sale in Manhattan last week which threatened to bring Sweet Adeline within the reach of all but the tone-deaf. "Listen-n-Sing" phonograph records teach barbershop harmonizing by taking it apart...
After a Saturday-night singer decides which part he wants to sing-First Tenor, Second Tenor, First Bass, Second Bass-he plays a 75? disc. On one side his part in Sweet Adeline, Let Me Call You Sweetheart and In the Evening by the Moonlight is sung solo; on the other the songs are let loose by a professional quartet, in which the amateur joins...
...Listen-n-Sing" records were devised by Duncan D. Sutphen Jr., Manhattan adman and onetime Princeton glee clubber. The songs are sung by an NBC quartet, whose members felt self-conscious singing separately; the second bass quacked and cracked through five tries before he got it right. If the first records sell, sea chanties and tougher barbershop tunes like Sylvia will be recorded...