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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...
Kirkland House's "The Provoked Wife" featured mellow and impromptu acting, voluptuous females in Sam Mantel and Dick Mannick in revealing Restoration garb, and "master of the company" Hammond portraying an especially suited Justice of the Peace role, in the hilarity directed by Al Olsen...
What gave the Guardian its high place was implicit last week in the long leader for the day by the veteran John Lawrence Le Breton Hammond, Scott's biographer, who broke his retirement to write of his former chief...
Among Harvard professor who studied at Oxford on Rhodes benefits are Crane Brinotn '19, William Yandell Elliott, Mason Hammond '25, Professor Haring; Ernest Hooton, and F. O. Matthiessen...
Harold W. Hammond...