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...approximately 8,000 gamelans (native orchestras). More than 10% of the island's male citizens were musicians. Every night the little villages rang with the crash of cymbals and the brassy clang of gongs. (The five tones of the Balinese musical scale are represented by the syllables ding, dong, déng, doong and dang...
...Mead's stooges quietly let it be known that they were all for good old Fiorello. Even Manhattan's Tammany Hall leaders, who had been Fiorello's whipping boys during his dozen ding-dong years as New York City's Mayor, liked the idea. The C.I.O.-P.A.C. thought it was wonderful. There was strong talk that if the Democrats made Butch their candidate the A.L.P. would put him and Jim Mead at the top of their ticket, too. A boom was born...
...months ago they decided to do something about this semi-prohibition. Result: a ding-dong wet-dry battle. Headed by Mayor Allan M. Butler, the wets supported a plebiscite calling upon the Nova Scotian Government to permit establishment of taverns which would sell beer and liquor by the glass. Last week Haligonians voted for taverns...
Asked a member from Somerset, Pa.: couldn't we ding Marshall Field for some other reason than the effect of competition? Replied an A.P. lawyer: it was a little late to think up new reasons. Member McCormick summed it up: "The Court will hold us in contempt if we don't elect the "applicants. Therefore. I second the motion...
Cutbacks, Cancellations. The great mass of corporations ding-donged along profitwise: 51% of the reporting companies were up, 49% down. Typically, General Foods dinged up to $3,627,550 v. $3,579,992 while Standard Brands donged down to $2,163,519 from...