Word: cole
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Perched behind the massive console in the audio booth of NBC's Studio No. 4 in Burbank, Calif., Sound Engineer Bill Cole looked a little like an octopus playing the organ. As Singer Andy Williams eased into the opening bars of an up-tempo number, Cole scanned a bewildering battery of gauges and began twiddling and tweaking some of the console's 250 multicolored knobs and switches that are linked to a forest of microphones in the studio. One knob channeled Williams' voice through an echo chamber; others-muffled or brightened various sections of the orchestra...
Unfortunately, all this expert attention was about as helpful as pouring a magnum of champagne into a thimble, because most of the hi-fi sound that Cole created for next week's Andy Williams special will be wasted when it is fed through the nation's strictly lo-fi TV sets. The unhappy fact is that, to keep prices competitive, most TV units are equipped with 4-in., $1.50 speakers, which have all the fidelity of a string stretched between two tin cans. Nonetheless, as Cole forever demonstrates in the specials he engineers for such headliners as Williams...
Sympathetic Strings. It is an honor without much glory. In an industry devoted to the visual, his contribution is almost academic. Most major programs employ legions of assistant directors and cameramen, but Cole labors alone in the isolation of the sound booth, grappling with problems such as how to ceep the sympathetic strings of a sitar Tom vibrating to the twangs of a nearby banjo. What makes many talented audio engineers defect to the technical haven of the recording companies is the frustrating acoustical conditions of the TV studios. Aswarm with crewmen, performers, musicians, cameras, cables, dollies, cranes, lights...
...wind was stiff, and Dorwart was both. He allowed a hit and walked three batters before he found anything resembling control. With one run in and the bases still loaded, the tall Kentuckian finally looked as if he had found some of his stuff. He got, M.I.T.'s Jim Cole to hit an easy double-play grounder. Second baseman Phil Smith took the throw from short-stop Jeff Grate for the first out, but threw the ball far over first baseman Joe Ignaclo's head. Two runs scored on the error and the M.I.T. lead was to prove insurmountable...
After a poll shows that he will capture 61% of the city vote if he accedes to the interracial match, the Senator bestows his blessing on the couple. By and large, the performers act depressed by the lines they mouth, although perky Carol Cole-daughter of the late Nat King Cole, making her Broadway debut -looks much nicer than the play...