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| | TIME.com: Fresh Off the Boat -- Oct. 25, 1948 -- Page 1 |
 | | TIME.com: Fresh Off the Boat -- Oct. 25, 1948 -- Page 1 |
 | | At their first concert in the Metropolitan Opera House, damp-eyed crowds cheered, for it was wartime, and the orchestra started off an evening of French masters with an unforgettable lump-in-the-throat performance of La Marseillaise. |
 | | Banker Otto H. Kahn made an appropriate speech: "If we ever failed to understand her, the great soul of France now stands revealed in splendor." |
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