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*It has been 146 years since Swedish troops last went into battle in the nearly bloodless 1814 war with Norway. A derisive jingle commemorates their prowess: "Ten thousand Swedes marched through the weeds, to kill one poor Norwegian."
The question before the House of Lords: Should those bicycle ice-cream salesmen, known in America as Good Humor men and in Britain as Stop Me and Buy One vendors, be forbidden to jingle their bells as they vend? At almost the same time that the House of Commons soberly...
Teleprayer. Full of subdued color, Dimbleby had a kindly plug or two for Queen Elizabeth's coachman, Joseph Cooze. He described the mounted Sovereign's Escort as "this lovely, twinkling jingle of breastplates," and back at Buckingham Palace, when a telescopic longshot followed the royal family as they...
IN the folklore of the U.S. food industry, mouths water and registers jingle when any product-from maple syrup to dog biscuits-is endowed with the nostalgic aura of the "old-fashioned." No one has better succeeded in transforming that folklore into fact than trim, green-eyed Margaret Rudkin, 62...
A Christmas Sound Spectacular (John Klein, carillonneur; RCA Victor Stereo). It is easy to quibble with the style of this Christmas celebration, but hard to find fault with the sound. There are too many wailing choristers and glutinous strings in the standard selections (White Christmas, Jingle Bells), but the 1...