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With the possibility of still more major sports to come, it was felt that the simplest and best course was to standardize the sweater, making distinctions only between major and minor letters by varying the size of the letter. The major letter is 7 1/2 inches high, compared to the 4 3/4 inch minor letter. About 200 letters in major sports are presented every year...
...simplest way for an advertiser to get music for his commercials is to take it free from the public domain, e.g., Rheingold Beer's current use of the Banana Boat Song. The sponsor may also buy commercial rights to hit melodies. The fees run into thousands of dollars in the case of composers such as Cole Porter, who leased his It's De-Lovely to De Soto. At first, songwriters resisted this practice, but now many of them welcome it. They not only share the fees with their publishers, but they get regular ASCAP...
...vowel. His colleagues at a small Eastern college can make out Pnin's pastoral odes to "Tsentral Park," but few realize that "I search for the viscous and sawdust" is a request for whisky and soda. Devoted to the active verb and the present tense, Pnin invests the simplest acts with explosive vitality ("I never go in a hat even in winter"). In all verbal matters, Pnin would rather be wrong than hesitant, and no doughtier comic immigrant has set foot on the shores of U.S. fiction since Timofey's "tvin" dialectician...
There seem to be at least three basic techniques for beating the system--the social, the athletic, and the esthetic. The simplest version of the social is to change one's name to Saltonstall or Roosevelt (Teddy's side, of course) and let the interviewer worry about the rest. A simpler and more satisfying method is to sit placidly (i.e., quiet ostentation) throughout the interview and then ask at the session's close, "How much does Harvard need for that new house? Daddy was wondering." Can't miss...
...whisk of the author's wand puts plain John ill at ease in the count's clothes and drawing room, half wanting and half dreading to be discovered as an impostor. The simplest acts are tense puzzlers, like finding his way to bed and then finding out who is in it. Acting the count, John soon realizes that the real count was fleeing a pack of emotional creditors whose hearts he had bankrupted. The count's mother is a morphine addict. His sister is a pious recluse who has not spoken to him for 15 years...