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Everyone has read those words in history books; few know that T.R. spoke them in drumbeat tempo and a high-pitched voice that seem mismatched to the thunderous sentiment. But thanks to Edison, who first recorded the human voice in 1877, T.R.'s words were later etched in wax. Thanks to Michigan State University's new National Voice Library, Americans can now hear his speech, along with 16,000 other voices and sounds going back to the 1880s-everything from Gladstone hailing "the triumph of the phonograph" to Billy
...world's biggest such babel is Curator G. Robert Vincent, 63, whose faith in sound-as-scholarship rests on the idea that "the voice is the surest index to character." Vincent got his idea back in 1913, when at the age of twelve he thrust a cumbersome Edison machine under Teddy Roosevelt's mustache and begged him to speak. In his oddly manful squeak, T.R. advised all boykind: "Don't flinch, don't foul and hit the line hard!" With that coup, Vincent began recording every sound in sight. After Yale ('22), he spent...
DISCOVERY '64 (ABC, 1-1:30 p.m.). The discoveries of Thomas Edison are recreated for children...
...also something more than the mere sum of his praise and criticism. He is a throwback to the classic American individualist, a mold which produced Thomas Edison and Thoreau-men with the fresh eye that cannot be done. What Fuller sees excites him with the vision of man's potentialities, and he has made it his mission to help man to realize them. Says he: "Man knows so much and does so little." Last week this crackpot stepped off the plane in London, spouting words the minute his feet touched ground, and headed for a dinner in his honor...
...expand at full speed just to keep up. Already a giant among U.S. power utilities, it ranks first in the size of the area it covers, first in revenues (1963 earnings: $113 million on $749 million sales), and second only to New York City's Con Edison in generating capacity. P.G. & E.'s growth has been so phenomenal that the company will spend a record $255 million in 1964 on new power plants and transmission facilities. The 1964 outlay, announced last week, is only the first installment of a master plan that by 1980 will make...