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DIED. Peter Carl Goldmark, 71, Hungarian-born electronic whiz and inventor of the 33% r.p.m. long-playing record; in an automobile accident; in Westchester County, N.Y. President of CBS Laboratories for 17 years, Goldmark also developed the video cassette for recording TV images on tape, and the so-called rotating-disk system for color TV. While the disk device failed by a whisker to win F.C.C. approval as the standard U.S. TV system, it was later used to send the first color images from the moon. Said Goldmark, who preferred practical applications to ivory-tower theorizing: "An inventive idea without...
...Peter C. Goldmark, S.D., inventor of long-playing records and pioneer in development of color television...
...varied among individual records. The collection, covering the years from 1906 to 1920, consists mainly of Italian and French opera and salon music, with half a dozen parlor songs sung approximately in English. "Vecchia zimarra, senti" the bass "Coat Song" from La Boheme, and "Magische Note," an aria from Goldmark's Queen of Sheba that contains a rare recorded example of Caruso's using falsetto, are the most unusual items. A pair of "Celeste Aidas" (1906 and 1908) raises the question of whether every performance even by the recording industry's first superstar deserves resurrection...
...other members of Whitlock's committee will be R. Freed Bales, professor of Social Relations; Janet Fraser, director of Student Affairs in the Institute of Politics; Peter Goldmark '68, formerly of Mayor Lindsay's staff; Walter J. Leonard, assistant dean of the Law School; Dr. Alvin F. Poussaint, associate dean for Student Affairs at the Medical School; and Representative Paul Sarbanes...