Word: catalogs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...normal yen for sleep, could sit down ber fore his hi-fi set and work through the whole literature of LP-recorded sound (as far as generally available in the U.S.) in roughly 3½ years. To keep him up to date, he would want a 204-page catalog published monthly by William Schwann of Boston. In the ten years since LPs started flooding the market, the Schwann Long Playing Record Catalog has become a fascinating indication of music consumption in the vinyl era. Last week, as his 100th catalog was being mailed out to 4,000 record shops...
...first Schwann Catalog contained eleven record-company labels, 96 composers, 674 listings; the current issue contains 303 labels, 718 composers, 19,830 listings...
...Only a fifth of the serious composers listed in the original catalog were contemporary; today nearly half are contemporary, a quarter of them American...
Archibald MacLeish, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, currently has more cards under his name in the Widener catalog than any other faculty member, according to a CRIMSON survey. Since the time of the last count, in March, 1955, MacLeish has forged ahead from fourth place to take the title...
With 82 cards to his credit, MacLeish easily outdistances his nearest rivals. In second place is Howard Mumford Jones, professor of English, who currently burdens the catalog with some 62 titles. Jones was in third place, one ahead of Mac Leish...