Word: columbias
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...television set, anymore than he would dare to express a liking for Norman Vincent Peale or California burgundy. But nowadays the TV box is no longer square. An intellectual can laughingly confess to TV addiction, and the lower-brow the program the better. Even so eminent a figure as Columbia University's Professor Mark Van Doren has been a convert ever since his son Charles triumphed on Twenty...
Then there was the Ivy League. The Crimson absorbed five straight losses from Cornell, Columbia, princeton, Penn, and Yale in a frustrating show of futility. And last weekend came the debacle at the Intercollegiates in New York, where the varsity finished eighth out of 11 teams, winning only 32 of 90 bouts...
...Lieberson has put musicians in charge of his chief divisions. He hired Mitch Miller to run the popular-record division "despite the whoopdedoo because he was an oboe player and wore a beard." He gets along famously with artists ("I like creative people"), has lured many of them to Columbia, partly because, as Richard Rodgers says, "Goddard and his people make you feel a little more appreciated." Lieberson has a good ear for trends-though he can sometimes prove hard of hearing. He thought rock 'n' roll was an undesirable and fleeting fad, refused to record the tunes...
...went to the Eastman School of Music in Rochester. He composed everything from a symphony to pieces for a string quartet before deciding that a composer-at least of his caliber-"could not make a living in the U.S." He took a $50-a-week job with Columbia just a few months after CBS bought it. Later, as Director of Masterworks, Lieberson almost single-handed built up Columbia's skimpy catalogue of classical works to compete with first-place RCA Victor. He was made executive vice president in 1949, president in 1956, now earns a salary...
...friend of the famous, is an untiring name-dropper. He was delighted when Rosemary Clooney substituted his name for Franklin Roosevelt's in her recording of How About You?, came up with: "And Goddard Lieberson's looks give me a thrill." Now Lieberson is guiding Columbia into stereophonic sound, this year is planning 200 stereo albums. He is convinced that stereo is a logical refinement of LP rather than another technological revolution, that what is put on records is still more important than how it is put on. Says he: "We are willing to put out the records...