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...after-hours Myrick and Ives achieved distinction in other fields as well. Ives wrote atonal, craggy symphonies and tone poems full of early American nostalgia (Three Places in New England, The Concord Sonata, Symphony No. 3) which won him a Pulitzer Prize and recognition as one of the leading U.S. composers. Says Myrick: "He always said his business helped his music." Myrick became president of the U.S. Lawn Tennis Association in the early '20s, also headed the Davis Cup Committee whose teams won the cup six years in a row. Once when touring with the 1924 Olympic team, Myrick...
CHARLES M. BRYAN Concord, Tenn...