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...would probably give first thought to making advertising my career . . . because it combines real imagination with a deep study of psychology.'' But today. Americans talk about advertising more than ever because it has woven itself inextricably into the texture of their everyday lives. The first songs sung by today's toddlers are less apt to be nursery rhymes than mesmeric radio and TV jingles. Millions of Americans might have trouble identifying Ernest Hemingway, but it would be hard to find one who does not know what to order for The Pause That Refreshes...
...other lands where other songs be sung...
...franc note. She flies back to her gilded cage in time to preen and twitter for the man who keeps her for the same reasons he keeps a second car: convenience and ostentation. Her songwriters arrive, and the canary mechanically warbles a few love songs she has sung a hundred times before without a pulse of feeling; but suddenly now they crush her heart and she flies into the street again. Death is everywhere: in the broadcasts from Algeria, in the movie she drops in on, in the jaws of the street-corner showman who cheerily passes...
...public schools announced that Bible reading would continue in classes; a school district in Colonie, N.Y., decided to substitute a short period of silence for optional contemplation in place of the banned regents' prayer. In Hicksville, L.I., the board of education has approved the recitation of the rarely sung fourth stanza of The Star-Spangled Banner-"Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just; And this be our motto: 'In God is our trust' "as a daily prayer...
...Kerkrade; the band of the tiny town of Eijsden, Holland, which was accompanied to the concours by 2,000 cheering supporters; the Banda Primitiva of Liria, Spain, whose conductor entertained the crowd by dancing on his toes in front of his musicians as they played. When all was said, sung, marched, tootled and done, the overall winner of the world's biggest brass-band competition was not a brass band at all but an amateur symphony orchestra-the National Youth Orchestra of Israel, which barely beat out New Zealand's National Band.* The lung-weary winner...