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Boston's classical-music station WBMS this week decided to abandon Brahms for bop. After three years' experience, disillusioned Vice President George Lasker concluded that "all of the classical-music enthusiasts in Boston would just about fill the Boston Garden [capacity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Brahms to Bop | 5/8/1950 | See Source »

...audience was not only small, it was perverse. Complained Lasker: "Listeners resented the commercials and even threatened boycotts because their esthetic tastes were offended. The advertisers, therefore, would not support the station...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Brahms to Bop | 5/8/1950 | See Source »

After the contract of WBMS's Disc Jockey Arthur Fiedler, conductor of the Boston "Pops" Orchestra, runs out this month, Lasker will carry "absolutely no classical music of any kind." This week, though five music students were protesting the station's new policy with a picket line, most Bostonians accepted the switchover calmly. Said one: "Rather than listen to high-pressure, ear-jarring sales talk, I, like other Bostonians, will take my recordings at home without commercials...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Brahms to Bop | 5/8/1950 | See Source »

...request of ex-Law Partner Louis S. Levy, Hahn arranged a $250,000 loan for Levy from Adman Albert D. Lasker, president of Lord & Thomas, which had American's account. When it came out, in 1939, that the loan had found its way to Federal Judge Martin T. Manton, who had decided a stockholder's suit in Hill's favor, Manton was convicted of bribery and Levy was disbarred. The court exonerated Hahn, saying he had been guilty only of "poor judgment" (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Light for Lucky | 4/17/1950 | See Source »

...Miss Marion Sheahan, R.N. (the first nonphysician to win a Lasker Award), executive director of the National Committee for the Improvement of Nursing Services...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: For Outstanding Service | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

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