Word: disks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...newspapers that run his syndicated column, Walter Winchell has been having trouble. He is feuding with so many enemies-e.g., the New York Post ("New York Poo," "Postitute," "Compost"), Disk Jockey Barry Gray ("Borey Pink," "a disk jerk") and Columnist Leonard Lyons* ("author of the 'Liar's Den' "), that editors and readers outside Manhattan often don't know what Winchell is talking about. As a result, editors have been cutting or killing many of his columns. Last week Winchell announced a plan to stop the mayhem. He will set aside two days a week...
...proved that it was technically possible to get extremely high fidelity of tone by the use of duplicate, spaced microphones, duplicate recordings and duplicate speakers. It has taken the popularity of hi-fi to bring the idea out of the labs. Last week two tape recorder manufacturers, one disk equipment firm and one record company were demonstrating working models...
Casds Festival at Perpignan, Vol. I (Perpignan Festival Orchestra conducted by Pablo Casals; Columbia, 4 LPs). The great cellist is heard here as a Mozart conductor (he plays a Haydn cello Adagio on a personally inscribed fifth disk for purchasers of the complete album), shows that it is still possible to make such old veterans as Eine kleine Nachtmusik sound daisy-fresh. The orchestra is the fervent group that gathered around the Master in 1951; soloists include Violinist Erica Morini, Oboist Marcel Tabuteau...
...Bartok). A pre-Bach genius (1660-1725) who specialized in operas and cantatas, Scarlatti was one of the first to write a real string quartet. This one, full of surprising glints and glows, is played to perfection by one of the U.S.'s finest ensembles. On the same disk: quartets by Tartini and Boccherini...
Died. Alvin ("Shipwreck") Kelly, sixtyish, self-styled "Luckiest Fool in the World," who enjoyed a brief celebrity in the frivolous '20s by sitting for days on a 13-inch disk atop flagpoles (his record: 49 days and one hour on a pole on Atlantic City's Steel Pier in 1930); of a heart attack, while walking on a sidewalk with a relief check in his pocket and a scrapbook of old press clippings under his arm; in Manhattan...