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...plaintive ballad about the man who dared ask a wartime waiter for one meat ball is fast becoming a fad with U.S. bobby-soxers. The adolescents have no idea how old-fashioned they are: their latest musical hero was well known to Boston in the 1850s. Almost a century ago, a shy Harvard Latin professor named George Martin Lane tried to buy a single fish ball in a restaurant, heard his piddling order bellowed out by a surly waiter...
...BALLAD AND THE SOURCE-Rosamond Lehmann-Reynal & Hitchcock...
...book fulfills it. It is a character study of Mrs. Sibyl Jardine, who lived in an old house set on a round hill surrounded by beeches and birch trees. Mrs. Jardine was a mystery. She fascinated children and worried their parents. The Ballad and the Source begins when she invites her neighbors' daughters, Jess and Rebecca, to pick primroses and have...
Stories Within Stories. The Ballad and the Source is Rebecca's adolescent portrait of Mrs. Jardine. It is a novel of stories within stories. The stories are suggestive, sometimes poignant. One of Mrs. Jardine's novels, it appears, was interpreted as a vindictive portrait of Rebecca's grandmother. Mrs. Jardine's leaving her first husband was apparently a noted scandal of the 1890s, complete with ruined career, resignation from the diplomatic corps, and a midnight attempt by Mrs. Jardine to kidnap their infant daughter Ianthe. When Ianthe was 18 her emancipated mother sent a lover...
...Decca records, which Crosby has helped to make, put out statistics which offered a partial answer. Crosby can sing almost any type of song, and sing it well. His best-sellers are a ballad (White Christmas, 1,700,000 records), a hymn (Silent Night, 1,500,000), a cowboy song (Don't Fence Me In, 1,250,000), a romantic love song (Sunday, Monday and Always, more than one million...