Word: loudnesses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...invention. At orchestral rehearsals this autumn their conductor will have a desk dotted with buttons to play on. Each music stand will have six lights: a white one for the first beat in a measure, blue for the successive beats; red to mean soft, green to mean loud, red and green together to hold, lights out to stop. Besides these each stand will have two smaller lights to convey individual messages to the players, say when the conductor wants the kettledrummer to pummel out a thundering crescendo...
Radio took the injunction without loud protest, proceeded to gather its own news as it saw fit. NBC and Columbia publicity staffs both are manned by seasoned newshawks. NBC's smart Vice President Frank Earl Mason, onetime president of Hearst's International News Service, applied wire service methods to the long distance telephone, got fast, adequate coverage of big news for his chain. Columbia went at it somewhat more elaborately, organized a system of correspondents in the 90 cities dotted by CBS stations...
...news when a loud-mouthed roughneck gets a black eye. But it is news when a U. S. Senator in his cups commits a nuisance on the trouser leg of a guest at a Long Island party...
Died. Edward Phocion Howard. 56. founder & publisher of the New York Press (turf weekly); of heart disease; at Saratoga, N. Y. Famed for his loud clothes, handsome manners, easy generosity and lugubrious wit. Publisher Howard had been a Senate page, a New York World reporter, a financial editor, an oilman. In 1916 he bought a racing stable, made a habit of attending every important U. S. race meeting, traveling in style whether flat or flush. In 1924 he started the New York Press in which, among racing tips, form charts, track gossip and ad- vertisements for ''advisory bureaus...
Senator Sheppard did all in his power to stay the humming bird's flight. He spent nearly a month stumping Texas against Repeal. He traveled 5,000 mi. in a Ford truck on which was loaded a pulpit and loud speaker. From behind this breastwork he addressed 45,000 persons on 48 occasions. Each time he spoke for about an hour, requiring no cough drops, no throat spray. His speeches were mostly prayerful rehashes of the address he has delivered in the Senate every Jan. 16 to commemorate Prohibition's birthday. Over & over he cried: "The millionaires want...