Word: ampersands
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Sirs: I have lived a half-century without ever knowing that dingus-"&"-was called the ampersand! (TIME, Dec. 14.) Wasn't there a famous & fashionable hotel in the Adirondacks by that name? If so, perhaps some of your readers might know who gave it that name & why. R. H. JOHN...
Famed & fashionable in Franklin County, N. Y. was the old Ampersand Hotel, built in 1888, razed by fire in 1907. Today on Lower Saranac Lake stands a new Hotel Ampersand. The name is taken from an Ampersand Mountain, an Ampersand Lake, an Ampersand Brook, probably a corruption of "amber sand" on the lake shore rather than a learned comparison between the brook's crookedness...
Would TIME'S editor kindly publish the rule for the use of the ampersand (&) in TIME'S text? Does TIME employ a printed style book and is it available to readers interested in both TIME and the printing...
...Lindsley '02 was substitute last year. Last summer he won the Ampersand tournament, defeating Pyne, the present intercollegiate champion...