Word: amateurs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With Graebner and Arthur Ashe, both of whom have bested some of the world's top pro players in the past year, and Stan Smith and Bob Lutz, who own almost every national amateur doubles title, the U.S. boasted its strongest Davis Cup team since it last won the trophy five years ago. The Australians, on the other hand, hurting because most of their top players have defected to the pro ranks, could only assemble a young, relatively green team, none of whom had any previous Cup experience...
Perhaps more significant than such major concerts by well-known artists are the thousands of more modest Bach performances, ranging down to the smallest towns and the merest amateur level. Here Bach is pervasive. Following the pattern set by the present-day chorus at Bach's own St. Thomas Church in Leipzig, church and community choirs throughout the Western world are marking Christmas by singing something of Bach's, even if only a two-minute chorale. And what church organist will let Christmas-or any other week-go by without playing at least one Bach prelude or perhaps...
...single worldly triumph crowned Bach's old age. King Frederick the Great of Prussia, a gifted amateur musician, invited him to the court at Potsdam. When he arrived, Frederick immediately dismissed his minions, exclaiming: "Old Bach is here!" The two then spent an evening together, and Bach delighted Frederick by improvising a fugue on one of Frederick's themes. After returning home, Bach wrote an extensive chamber cycle on the same theme and sent it to Frederick with the title Musical Offering. Soon after this, Bach's overworked eyes as well as his rugged constitution began...
...will reproduce full-color images. When the coded film passes through a special scanner, the colors are electronically retrieved for viewing on the TV screen. The discovery of this cheap color film is likely to stir a revolution in the motion-picture industry and may someday give every amateur the resources of color-movie photography at drugstore prices...
Tunes all this: FM for fine music; AM for news, sports and music; Marine (2-4 MHz) for ship-to-shore and weather; Long Wave (150-400 KHz) Aircraft Band; Short Wave (4.2-17.9 MHz); Amateur and foreign broadcasts in 7 bands...