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U.S. RUBBER. A giant rubber tire, six stories tall, frames a newfangled Ferris wheel popular with youngsters. After loading up, the swinging bucket seats go for a two-trip spin over the top.
In part the fair is Mainstreet cum Madison Avenue out of control, a veritable phantasmagoria of garish commercialism. But even the blatantly tawdy has its fascination. So does the sideshow atmosphere of a Ford convertible ride to Walt Disney's dinosaur-land and "Space City," an "audio-animatronic" Abe Lincoln...
The new organ will operate by mechanical tracker action, the traditional mechanism, rather than by the more modern electric action. This form was chosen to create a more pleasant-counting organ, what Ferris called "a return in principle to the baroque organ."
Installation of the new organ will require considerable renovation of Appleton Chapel, Ferris said. The side chambers, where pipes are now locate, will be plastered so that there will be loss absorption by the walls. The case of the organ, freestanding and claborately carried of oak, will be placed against...
Ferris said that the organ would be dedicated with a week of special recitals. A member of the planning committee, Daniel Pickham '44, has been commissioned to write a special composition for the first use of the organ.