Word: logs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spare-time composer who wrote most of his music early in the century, professional Insurance Man Charles Ives (TIME, Feb. 23, 1948) managed to anticipate most of his contemporaries. Often based on old hymn tunes, his music abounds in polytonal harmonies, complex rhythms; much of it is log-cabin crude and just as American. Symphony No. 3, finished in 1904 and revised in 1911, gathered dust in Ives's Connecticut barn until 1946, when it got its first performance and won him a Pulitzer Prize. The calm first movement is particularly prizeworthy. The National Gallery Orchestra (Richard Bales conducting...
...recalled a recent illness in an isolated western cabin: "There was a foot and a half of snow outside, and my temperature was 103. Of course, I had my own aureomycin with me, but I thought, 'Wouldn't it be strange if I died here in this log cabin?' " Quipped Author Ferber, "Just think what the headline writers would have done with the story. I can see it now, 'From White House to Log Cabin...
Defensive guard Dick Heldtmann, the other major casually Saturday, has a 50-50 chance to play this week. He is expected to test his injured log tomorrow. an encouraging note was the return to action of Buddy Lemay, a defensive line backer, who spent last week in Stillman with a kidney injury...
Hopeful Signs. When lookouts spotted a tern and a boatswain bird zipping overhead, hope of sighting land ran high. "These birds," Columbus noted in his log on the seventh day out, "never go more than 25 leagues [about 100 miles] from land." But the nearest islands at that point were the Azores, 600 miles to the north. A few days later the Santa Maria, Niña and Pinta ran into an oceanful of good omen. Soft breezes, another boatswain bird and a sea of floating weed with a live crab still enmeshed in it pleased everyone, and "the best...
...back to Spain. Looming out of the Caribbean Sea were three manatees-sea cows. These warm-blooded mammals looked half human as they raised their heads and chests and clasped their young in their arms to suckle them. Columbus found them disappointing mermaids. He confided in his log: "They are . . . not so beautiful as they are painted...