Word: columbias
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...personally invited him to play at the Brussels World's Fair (he may do so, with the Philadelphia Orchestra); Impresario Sol Hurok, who once passed him up, tried unsuccessfully to get Cliburn under option; Ed Sullivan put in his bid for Cliburn's first Stateside TV appearance. Columbia Artists announced plans to bring over Moscow Conductor Kiril Kondrashin to accompany Cliburn on May 19 in a Carnegie Hall duplication of his prizewinning concert, with later performances in Philadelphia and Washington. Cliburn's concert fee jumped in a week from...
Stereophonic sound, in its taped infancy the plaything of audiophiles with a yen for hearing a realistic pingpong ball, seems ready to make itself heard in the mass record market. Last week Columbia Records removed the only obstacle to industry agreement on standards for new stereo records by announcing that it had set aside its own, different, version of a sound-in-the-round disk...
...convert the public to stereo gradually so as not to endanger the fortune the industry already has invested in monaural LPs. There were two possible ways. One was to develop a cartridge and stylus that would play both straight monaural records and stereo records. The other way-Columbia's-was to develop a stereo record that would sound good with the standard monaural pickup and could also be used when the owner got around to buying stereo sound gear...
...When Columbia indicated that it might go the way of the compatible disk a month ago, the industry, flinching at the memory of the "Battle of the Speeds" in the late '40s, set up a protest. Columbia's compatible disk, other recordmakers argued, produced neither good monaural sound nor genuine stereo sound. Protesting its faith in its system, Columbia nonetheless fell into line. Chances are that the majors will be out by midsummer with a limited number of noncompatible stereo disks selected for their inherent sound qualities...
...Strontium-90 from fallout may be a greater-than-average danger to the aged as well as the very young (whose fast-growing bones naturally take up the calcium-mimicking element quickly). A group of Columbia University scientists found that in oldsters over 60, the strontium uptake appeared markedly higher than in their juniors aged 20 to 60, was concentrated in the vertebrae, the breastbone and the ribs...