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...last week included a $1,000 accordion, a six-foot "bassoguitar" and cellos equipped with loudspeaker horns. Oldest & biggest band instrument maker is 62-year-old C. G. Conn, Ltd., which reports business currently running 35% ahead of a year ago, has 1,000 men at work in its Elkhart, Ind. plant. As with other makers in the same line, the saxophone is still Conn's biggest seller. Also in Elkhart is big Martin Band Instrument Co., whose founder walked there after being burned out in the Chicago fire in 1871, got a job with Conn, branched out with...
...Gibson, Inc., which used to mean mandolins to many a high-school boy and girl. Gibson reports that guitars now account for 95% of its sales, compared to 5% before Depression. Another leading stringed instrument maker is C. F. Martin & Co., which is not to be confused with the Elkhart band instrument company. President is C. Frederick Martin IV, a suave, blond young man who is also president of National Association of Musical Merchandise Manufacturers. Says he: "My family has been in the business 90 years. . . . Americans as a class are attaining real musical appreciation for the first time...
...Born in Elkhart, Ind. 66 years ago, Herbert Bigelow went to Cincinnati in 1896 as pastor of the Vine Street Church...
Married, John Duval Dodge, 35, son of the late John F. Dodge, automobile tycoon: and one Dora McDonald Cline, 30; in Elkhart. Ind., less than a week after Marie O'Connor Dodge made a record for Michigan by divorcing...
...Elkhart, Ind., Morris Shock appeared in court for operating an oversized truck (72 ft. long), was asked bv Judge Conley what he was hauling. Replied Shock, "A whale." Released, Shock & whale proceeded to Chicago's World's Fair...