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...first Muzak recording in 1934 was a medley of Whispering, Do You Ever Think of Me? and Here in My Arms, performed by Sam Lanin's orchestra. The first customers were householders in the Lakeland section of Cleveland, who were offered, for $1.50 a month, three channels ranging from dance music to news. As a novelty, Muzak might well have gone the way of Sam Lanin's orchestra. But a series of experiments started in the late 1930s provided Muzak with the secret that converted base music into gold...
...second park is not located in a beach-front community like beautiful Vero, but a bit inland, between Orlando and Tampa in Lakeland. I was there to see Florida Southern College play Rollins in an NCAA Division II Sunshine State Conference contest. Southern plays in Marchant Stadium, the heart of Tiger-town, so while I didn't get to see Detroit I got a good look at their spring training facilities...
Casey Stengel's linguistic heir, Sparky Anderson, calls it something else. "Managing is always saying 'I think,' never saying 'I know,' " says the Detroit manager, sunning in a grandstand in Lakeland, Fla., where the Los Angeles Dodgers are visiting. Then he delivers his wonderful annual capsule analysis of the Tigers. "I ain't kidding now. This is an outstanding baseball team that I'll match against anybody in baseball-front line. They'll take their hacks at you. But then, there's a problem. You got to get the other side...
...Lakeland, Minn...
...have the resources of the Herald or the Times," says News-Press Executive Editor Ron Thornburg, "but we can make little guerrilla raids." The News-Press and the slightly larger but less ambitious Cocoa Today are owned by the giant Gannett chain. The Lakeland Ledger (circ. 50,000) has probably surpassed the Gainesville Sun (circ. 42,000) as editorial leader of the six dailies owned by the New York Times Co. Perhaps best of the tiny dailies is the Vero Beach Press Journal (circ. 15,000). The top weekly is almost surely the Naples Star (circ...