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First songwriter: "You know, the catchiest little song has been running through my head. It goes like this. Dum dum dah dah, doo dah doo dum dum, doe dah dah dah dab. I think I'll call it "Squash for Sale...
Almost as soon as Guest Conductor Antal Dorati signaled for the first crashing ta-ta-ta-dah (from Beethoven's Symphony No. 5), then some muted lullaby music, the musicians began to look like small boys getting into a new game that was going to be fun. Most of the instruments got their chance to shine. Boomed the narrator, Nelson Olmsted: "First I invented the flute [deep blue solo]. Next, the oboe [etc.] . . . But that wasn't all I needed. I had to have -Sharps and flats and pizzicato, Molto Lento and staccato, Treble clef, ritard, repeat, Allegro...
...Western Hemisphere is on the air only three nights a week, gives its only day programs Saturday afternoon and Sunday. Programs consist chiefly of records, most of them old numbers donated by Aklavikans. Eskimos and Indians, says MacLeod, like cowboy songs best; whites prefer Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah and boogie-woogie. Sundays the station airs one church service after another-some in Eskimo and varying Indian dialects...
Nothing Lah-de-dah. Above all there were the Kettles, Tobacco Readers who mismanaged a fertile farm and spent most of their time borrowing from the neighbors. Maw Kettle was a mountainously fat woman in a very dirty housedress. When Author MacDonald visited the Kettles, Maw shouted at the dogs to "stop that goddamn noise." Then she hospitably kicked a path through the dog bones and chicken manure. Author MacDonald staggered; her nose had been dealt "a stinging blow by the outhouse lurking doorless and unlovely" near the porch. Once she ventured to wonder why the Kettles...
Last week Pan-Dee died of peritonitis. A post mortem proved that the Zoo's hopes had been misplaced. Pan-Dee and Pan-Dah were a pair, not a couple...