[78-L] Douglas Macarthur on 78

[simmonssomer]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steven C. Barr" <stevenc at interlinks.net>
To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Sent: Friday, May 15, 2009 12:35 AM
Subject: Re: [78-L] Douglas Macarthur on 78


> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Jim Whipkey" <suuford at msn.com>
>>I went to another auction and got a real bargain!  Four  12 inch  78RPM
>> records  starring General of the Army Douglas MacArthur.
>> It's  the  complete address  MacArthur made to Congress 4/19/51 after
>> President Truman fired him.   The label says  Produced and Distributed
>> without profit by the Chicago Tribune and WGN as a public service,
>> manufactured by Mercuty Record Corporation, Chicago, Illinois.  The set 
>> is
>> in mint condition, was in the original shipping box, which I found
>> fascinating, because  the records were sent through the mail  in a thin
>> box,
>> with only a piece of cardboard between each  record.  I've listened to 
>> the
>> records, doubt if I  had ever heard  it before,  I was still in high
>> school
>> when he  gave the speech,  have to say I  believe  MacArthur was correct
>> in
>> his assessment of things  that day.  It  was all new to me, except the
>> closing  line, which  most of us remember, I suppose,  Old Soldiers never
>> die, they just fade away.  I did learn from  his speech that it's a line
>> from a  song which used to be sung at West Point. And it surprised me  he
>> ended  the speech  by then saying  merely "goodbye".
>> Oh, I have to brag a little,  was prepared to buy it,  indeed, determined
>> to
>> try and buy it, and was  surpised and amazed when I bid a dollar and no
>> one
>> else  spoke up.
>>
> In fact, my late father...who was a hard-core Republican and an admirer of
> McArthur, as well as a dedicated Tribune reader/subscriber...took us
> "downtown" to see McArthur's return to Chicago...which I can still
> recall...!
>
> ...stevenc
>
McCormick's Chicago Tribune was hard core isolationist which was not to 
prescient in 1938-39-40.

Al Simmons