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...Princeton, Columbia, New School of Social Research; traveler; student. History in the next century, he believes, will be determined by U.S. activities in the next few years. Meanwhile, the histories of Messrs. Buell and Treadway, as well as that of the First Massachusetts District, will be determined in a ding-dong scramble in the next nine weeks. Last week Amateur Politico Buell seemed to have at least a 50-50 chance...
...temples. Balinese gongsters, whose instruments range in timbre from trumpetlike brass gongs to tinkly wooden ones, play complicated rondo-like pieces, entirely without notation; a player remembers his notes by silently reciting a long poem. The Balinese scales correspond roughly to the Western; one of them has notes named ding, dong, deng, dung, dang. The Dutch Governor of Bali discovered a scale not previously identified, and the Fahnestocks recorded it in the singsong of an eight-year-old boy reciting a pornographic fairy tale...
...wonder that returning spring has for aging men. The year the Japanese sank the Russian fleet at Tsushima, Pollock dropped Holmes a postcard: "Certainly I believe you are as real as I am, but, as you are ejusdem generis with me, that does not make you a Ding an sich in the Kantian sense." The Italians grabbed Tripoli from Turkey, and Holmes wrote Pollock: "I have taken up Vita Nuova with Rossetti's translation alongside. Rossetti justifies to my mind my proposition that everything is dead in 25 years. ... As to Dante ... his discourse seems in equal parts from...
...Truesdale, and kicked two points for his afternoon's contribution. O'Donnell, a very speedy halfback, took Steve Gifford's place in the backfield, when Steve was laid out for the season with a back injury. Howie Gleason has been a consistent starter, and at present there is a ding-dong battle waging between Swede Anderson and Tom Cowen for the bucking spot in Boston's backfield...
...line on their Presidents, U. S. citizens have looked harder and oftener at political cartoons than at the editorial pages. Franklin D. Roosevelt was a caricaturist's "natural." But his cartoon character did not evolve overnight. At his nomination in 1932, top-flight Cartoonist "J. N. Ding" (Jay Norwood Darling) had already caught Roosevelt's cowcatcher chin and vaudeville grin. Added later were weightier jowls, up-jutting cigaret holder that make up the now-familiar Roosevelt caricature...