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...expenses. “When you reach more people, the advertising rates increase, as do the breadth and range of potential advertisers,” says John R. Menninger ’57, the station’s chief engineer at the time. In 1956 WHRB President Geoffrey M. Kalmus ’56 told The Crimson that WHRB might soon make the switch...
...airwaves to service a larger audience. Though the path had been partly paved by Princeton’s radio station, which had already switched to FM, Harvard Radio faced an uphill battle to get off the wires and on the air.In February 1956, WHRB President Geoffrey M. Kalmus ’56 announced that the station might begin to make the switch to FM in the next year. Though he claimed that the move wouldn’t affect programming—WHRB would “still be primarily for the Harvard community,” Kalmus told...
...will be agencies that rely on business-travel packages, that cost more than $500 apiece for the bulk of their revenues-as compared with agencies that specialize in budget-vacation trips. "The airlines are willing to pay you your regular 10% commission on all of the garbage," says Karen Kalmus, president of Travel Agency Accounting Systems, a Kansas City, Missouri, consulting firm. "But on all of the sirloin steak, they are not going...
Died. Daniel Comstock, 86, M.l.T. physicist who helped Engineer Herbert Kalmus develop the Technicolor process for making color movies; in Concord, Mass. Though they began work in 1914, it took Comstock and Kalmus more than six years to develop their complex color process; even then, their first commercial film, a 1922 feature starring Anna May Wong, was at best blurry and unpromising. It was not until 1932, seven years after Comstock had left the partnership to develop a color process for still photography, that Technicolor came into its own as a commercial success...
Died. Natalie Dunfee Kalmus, 87, co-developer in 1914, with her late Chemist-Husband Herbert Kalmus, of Technicolor, first and still most widely used color film process, who served as color director (1915-49) when Technicolor had a virtual monopoly of the field, turning out such early successes as Gold Diggers of Broadway (1929), Becky Sharp (1935), but quit after losing a bitter California divorce suit against her husband when it came out that they had been secretly divorced since 1921, thus invalidating her claim to half his property, estimated at $3,000,000; of an intestinal obstruction; in Boston...