Word: fiske
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Well-padded, playing a role Orson Welles would do without salary, Daniel Seltzer ambles grotesquely around the wooden rectangular stage on which most of Prince Erieis performed. He is Jim Fisk, fat man who rejected the potentially bleak future indicated by his past, becoming instead one of the richest, most unscrupulous Americans in the latter part of the 19th Century. Fisk and partner Jay Gould began with the Erie railroad and, at the height of their spectacular careers, virtually cornered and manipulated the country's private gold reserve...
...motif reflects the organ's origin more than two years ago in Fisk's Gloucester shop. After design and preliminary assembly there, installation in the Chapel began last March. Fisk has "been working night and day since May" to voice, or tune, its 4500 pipes, John Ferris, University organist and choirmaster, said yesterday...
...Charles P. Price, Preacher to the University, accepted the $109,000 instrument--the largest organ of its kind constructed by an American in this century--from builder Charles B. Fisk '49. Done in pseudo-Baroque style to harmonize with Appleton Chapel, the choir section of the Church, the organ's gilded carvings were executed by Rockport artist Roger H. Martin...
...Fisk organ, however, the keys make direct physical contact with the pipes. This mechanical action allows the organist greater control over a more brilliantly colored sound. With its 48 stops--knobs pulled to activate one or more ranks of pipes--and 75 ranks, the instrument "spoils you for playing any other," Ferris said...
...then to the Cleveland-Marshall Law School at night, where he obtained an L.L.B. while serving as a court probation officer during the day. He had married while he was a liquor inspector, but the marriage ended in divorce in 1956. In 1958 he married Shirley Edwards, an attractive Fisk University graduate in library science. They have a boy and a girl: Carl Jr., 9, and Cordi...