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Recorded music is getting better. Part of the credit goes to improved electronic devices, part to engineers who combine technical knowledge with artistic temperament. One of these latter rare specimens is John Hays Hammond Jr., 58, America's gaudiest inventor and holder of nearly 800 patents. Last week he was tuning his latest gadget: an improved "dynamic amplifier," which coaxes uncannily lifelike music out of phonograph records. It was already licensed to RCA and A.T. & T., this month would be demonstrated to the crowned heads of the phonograph industry...
Singly and in straggling little groups the faithful came to view the remains. Hinky Dink was dead, at 89. At Hursen's funeral Home on Chicago s South Michigan Avenue, under the glass cover of a $5,000 bronze casket, the Honorable Michael Kenna, symbol of the gaudiest era of Chicago's noisy and sinful past, was now a museum piece...
...gamesome King Edward VII and gamey King Leopold II of the Belgians were just as intime chez Maxim. To many another princely sprig, millionaire, archduke and demimondaine of the fey '90s, Maxim's in Paris' rue Royale was the most elegant bistro in Europe, the gaudiest symbol of the mauve decadence. Its décor was the most glittery, its women the most ravishing, its top-drawer scandals the most toothsome. No Manhattan nightclub captain was ever so suave or tactful as Maxim's famed, monocled Chasseur Gérard, who, with a handy grasp...
People said a Harlow team just couldn't roll up a big score, but the scoreboard stop the Stadium late Saturday afternoon which read 49 to 0, in the Crimson's gaudiest touchdown parade since its 61 to 0 slaughter of a de-emphasized Chicago eleven in 1939, made them wish they hadn't spoken...
...were farsighted. Yet the drop in federal spending had failed to halt the tremendous momentum of the economy. It rolled on like a great water wheel, gushing out money. It rolled into retail stores, movies, bank accounts. And much of it rolled out again to gas up the gaudiest Christmas spending spree in years. Yet, as store shelves were swept clean, there was little, as yet, in the cupboard to fill them up again...