Word: ampersand
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Ransacking the old Ampersand archives, we discovered this elegant figure by Joyce Lukey of Dubuque, Iowa, who is now $25 richer...
Meanwhile, any other artistically inclined money-hungry folks are encouraged to submit their own original Ampersands. Each design must be executed in black ink on sturdy white paper. Neatness counts. Mail your gems to Ampersand of the Month, 1680 N. Vine Street, Suite 201, Hollywood, CA 90028. And don't be too alarmed if you don't hear from us for two years...
...Cambridge, however, they knew they had something else going. "We thought, 'Wouldn't we be great onstage?' " says Suzanne. " 'We make each other laugh so.' " They started working "semisteadily," as they put it, two years ago, and this year became a permanent team, ampersand and all. Audiences are now joining in their laughter. That kind of light humor called improvisation, which died out in the dark days of the late '60s, is back, as welcome as ever...
What makes reading these letters worthwhile is the style in which they are written. She moves easily from one detail to the next, with no connection except an ampersand (which the editors wisely eliminated in favor of the less obtrusive "and"). Like her handwriting (which was wretched) her style was completely unstudied. It was simply the way the words came out. Nicolson, who heard her speak when he was a child, says the letters give quite an accurate representation of her conversation. One reason she charted the vicissitudes of character in her novels was that her style was flexible enough...
...issues traded on the New York Stock Exchange, but in addition to prices on the Big Board itself, it records prices for the same stocks in six other markets. For each trade effected off the Big Board, the stock symbol is followed on the tape by an ampersand and a letter for the market involved: M for the Midwest Stock Exchange, P for the Pacific Coast Stock Exchange, X for the PBW (Philadelphia-Baltimore-Washington) Exchange, C for the Cincinnati Stock Exchange, T for trades executed by member brokers of the National Association of Securities Dealers and not put through...