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...with some Brass music of Johann Pezel, a 17th Century German Town Musician. The Leverett House Glee Club then joined the Brass for a Lied and Chorale by Mendelssohn. The Lied turned out to have the tune of "Hark the Herald Angels Sing" set to a German text praising Gutenberg. The effect of a lusty male chorus singing this with a Brass Choir is enough to revive the old tune to unimagined, if somewhat humorous, grandeur...
...noble art of penmanship, one of the highest artistic expressions of civilized humanity, has been suffering a gradual decline over the last few thousand years. First came the adoption of a standardized alphabet by the pedantic ancients. Then there was the invention of the printing press, by the notorious Gutenberg. Finally, only ninety years ago, those three men in Milwaukee devised the infamous typewriter...
...time all of the reporters, editors and background absorbers had shoved their way into place, their number would total some 4,000, roughly two newsmen for every delegate to the Democratic National Convention. Biggest reason for the record: TV and radio, whose electronic battalions outnumber other newsmen ("The Gutenberg boys," one TV producer calls them) almost...
...despite the fact that this year's national political conventions are geared for TV, the Gutenberg boys were themselves more numerous than ever, and were sure to top the record-breaking flood of 19,664,472 words that poured through Western Union wires from both conventions in 1952. Not only were many small-city dailies and weeklies covering a convention for the first time, but press associations and major papers beefed up their staffs (and more brass went along for the show). Some staffs, like the 100-man word-and-picture teams assigned by the Associated Press...
...basis of convention history, the Gutenberg boys thought they would manage to keep the inside track. Said U.P. General News Manager Earl Johnson: "After almost every convention, you can put your finger on one development that foretold the final result. The development can be weeks before the delegates assemble or in an obscure room during convention week. Almost never does it happen before the TV cameras. The key to good convention coverage is to move in early with an experienced staff and canvass scores of sources day and night...