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...evening last year Joseph Jaarus, 19, of Grand Rapids dialed local radio station WLAV to ask that Disk Jockey Tom Quain play his favorite number, I Need You. As usual, the line was busy. But just as he was about to hang up, Joseph thought he heard a babble of voices through the beeps of the busy signal. "Hello?" he ventured, curiously. "HELLO!" shouted some of the voices. Joseph Jaarus had made contact with the beep line...
...liam Henry stood before a thousand broadcasters in Manhattan last week, what could he do to be as wastelandish as his predecessor Newton Minow? Since Minow had attacked TV programming, commercials were obviously the largest remaining target. Henry went after them. Citing a recent case in which a disk jockey was told by his station to "play a record between each commercial," Henry told the broadcasters that there are just too many commercials being rammed at the public. He complained about the "bait, hook, switch, and stuff" tactics of late movies, which offer 20 minutes or so of uninterrupted movie...
...Plays the Philharmonic Hall Organ (Command). In baroque, romantic and modern music - Bach's Passacaglia and Fugue in C Minor, Franck's Grande Piece Symphonique and Messiaen's Dieu Parmi Nous-Fox puts Manhattan's first fine concert organ through its paces for a disk debut. A staggering volume and variety of sound and with it, music of a high order...
Culling a little glory from other people's songs occasionally develops in disquaires the kind of personality that makes jerks out of disk jockeys, and the power to make people sit down or stand up is, of course, corrupting. Disquaires have the added pleasure of watching their spell take effect. Soon they start talking like Che Guevara. "I manipulate the crowd," says the woman disquaire at New Jimmy's in Paris. "I play four or five slows, then I attack with a twist...
...were imported from the thriving cities of the Near East, and when faced with the problem of inventing a Buddha image, they fell back on the Greek and Roman image of Apollo dressed in a kind of Roman toga. They probably borrowed the halo from the traditional Iranian sun disk that symbolized the heavenly light of Ahura Mazdah. For Buddha's ushnisha-the bump on the top of his head that housed a sort of extra brain that grew as a result of his Enlightenment-they substituted a topknot of extra hair...