Music: With Fife & Drum

Tin Pan Alley was still grinding its own powder for the war this week, but mostly its powder looked and smelled like corn meal:

> Some of the song titles: Our Glorious America, Defend Your Country, There's Millions of Yankees On Their Way, Buckle Down Buck Private.

> The flock of MacArthur songs still poured out. Among them: Here's To You, MacArthur; Hats Off to MacArthur, We've Got a Wonder Down Under. What sounded the most sincere and tuneful: Fightin' Doug MacArthur.

> Lyric Writer Bud Green had a new twist, but little else,...

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