Word: cbs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their careers (11.4% above 1937's first quarter). The pinch came in April and some heads began to shake. But the axiom seems to be holding true. With an August boom, the networks began pulling out. Last week, gross revenues of the three major chains -MBS, NBC, CBS,-for the first eight months of 1938 came to $46,971,173, neatly topping the $45,551,198 of 1937's first eight months. With no more than the fall contracts already on the books, the networks could shut up their sales offices this week, sell not another minute...
...Twilight in Turkey, Powerhouse, War Dance for Wooden Indians, etc.). His music, whose deliberate jazz style is so sophisticated that it seems almost a caricature of jazz, has attracted the attention of such musical bigwigs as Igor Stravinsky. Last week Bandleader Paul Whiteman devoted the best part of his CBS broadcast to Scott's dry, sharp-rhythmed music...
With the help of his "quintet" (which consists not of five, but of six instrumentalists), Composer Scott has recently created a "jazz laboratory" at CBS. Here, with recording equipment, engineers and arrangers at his disposal, he is continuing his curious task of building music directly for the microphone. His method is to start one player on a rhythm or a phrase of melody, add another instrument, adjust the balance between the two, throw in a dash of drumming or a splash of saxophone, and simmer the resultant mixture until ready for recording. With the help of recordings and re-recordings...
Ford Symphony (Sun. 9 p.m., CBS) opens its 5th Sunday Evening Hour season. Conductor: Philadelphia's Eugene Ormandy. Solist: Baritone John Charles Thomas...
National Tennis Championships (Fri. 2:30 p.m., CBS). No. 1 tennists meet in men's and women's semifinals, described by Sportscaster Ted Husing from Forest Hills...