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SALERNO (260 pp.)-Hugh Pond-Lif-tle, Brown...
Much more successful were Charles Ives' three miniatures for chamber orchestra, The Rainbow (1914), The Pond (1906), and The Unanswered Question (1906). The first two are really instrumental solos, which Ives also composed as songs. In their accompaniments, lines slither around to transform the traditional harmonic basis into something quite live and active. In The Unanswered Question Ives exploits a favorite device of his, two independent ensembles. One, the muted strings, provides a constant background, labelled "the eternal silence of the Druids." The other, a few woodwinds, attempts to answer the question proposed by a solo trumpet. The woodwinds...
...Drew Pearson. Andover's are Oliver Wendell Holmes, John Lardner, Quentin Reynolds, John Home Burns, James Ramsay Ullman and the much-read Dr. Benjamin Spock. Most famous nongrad is Andover's Humphrey Bogart, who got the boot for "incontrollably high spirits" (he dunked a teacher in Rabbit Pond) and spent his life boasting about...
...going into them than into almost any other field of architecture. The second houses range from modest cabins in the woods to elegant retreats that cost anywhere from a few thousand dollars to $75,000 or more. They may be on the seashore, in the mountains, on a pond, or simply on the most convenient spot of land available for its owner's means. There are already more than 1,000,000 vacation houses in the U.S., and so many more are being built each year that there will be an estimated...
...look-alike brands, which usually sell for less than half the price of the U.S. original, cover a wide spectrum. They include Yalf locks, N & N chocolates, Del Mundo catsup, Pang's (Pond's) cold cream, Sehnring (Schering) drugs, and no fewer than five imitations-Hotex, Potex, Katex, Mytex and Nestex-of another familiar U.S. product...