Stories From the Silver Screen: Chariots of Fire

Group of cross-country runners at the 1924 Paris Olympics

General Ulysses S. Grant, who, on military matters, was an undoubted expert, knew next to nothing about music, once claiming to have known only two tunes. “One of them is ‘Yankee Doodle,’” he confessed. “And the other isn’t.” He and I, I’m afraid, are not so far apart. I too know only one tune, and it isn’t “Yankee Doodle.” In fact, it’s the theme song from “Chariots of Fire…

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