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Crop-haired Composer Cage, who looks like a Huck Finn grown to 36, is trying to compose music that is really "atonal." Says he: "Atonal music was excellent in theory, but there were no atonal instruments to play it." He wanted "sounds" instead of "tones"; he found them in junk yards, bone yards and hardware stores-brake drums, pipe lengths, asses' jaws-and in his prepared pianos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Sonata for Bolt & Screw | 1/24/1949 | See Source »

...whole gamut of seafood. Steak in all its forms can certainly be found at Lloyd's Steak House, and at Jim Cronin's. If you hanker for an after-dinner liqueur, the Oxford Grille has it; and maniacs who would walk a mile for fish and chips, go to Huck Finn's in Chelsea...

Author: By Jack Spratte, | Title: Weekend Sidelights | 11/19/1948 | See Source »

...question of Silas Lapham or Huck Finn, and I'll take Huck Finn anytime," Associate Professor Sam Beer asserted in a debate on the election with Associate Professor Charles R. Cherington before more than 200 people who packed the Littaner Loungo last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cherington, Beer Argue Election Race; Kennedy, Eliot Lash into Republicans | 10/29/1948 | See Source »

...Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn had definite ideas on the best way to cure warts. Tom favored "spunk-water" (rain water in a rotten tree stump). One of Huck's favorite prescriptions required a dead cat: "Why, you take your cat and go and get in the graveyard 'long about midnight when somebody wicked has been buried; and when it's midnight a devil will come, or maybe two or three . . . and when they're taking the feller away, you heave your cat after 'em and say, 'Devil follow corpse, cat follow devil, warts follow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Spunk-Water & Psychoanalysis | 8/2/1948 | See Source »

...what is dead cats good for, Huck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Mind over Matter | 5/20/1946 | See Source »

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