Word: mem
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Salerno's attitude is typical--the people down at WHRB's studo in the basement of Mem Hall refuse to prostitute their taste and pander to the people at large. WHRB has a fixed image, and they are proud and defensive about it. No rock 'n' roll ever comes over their air, and the word they use most often to describe themselves, and their listeners, is "esoteric". "We have an eclectic, esoteric, kind of programming," says Joe Erlanger '67, this year's Station Manager. Another member modestly asserts that WHRB'S programming standards classical jazz, and folk music "the finest...
...Renaissance," or "Great Chamber Music" shows are balanced by the popular trad jazz show "Here Comes the Hot Tamale Man" (Barry Hilton '66), the daily "jazz Entree," or the Baladeers" and "Hillbilly at Harvard." There are also documentaries, and weekly broadcasts of the Ford Hall Forum and the Mem Church Sunday service, although much less time is given to non-musical...
...shoe string," says Webb and WHRB is no exception, even though it has no salaries to pay. Expensive equipment has to be bought fairly often, as WHRB expands and tries to keep up with the "state of the art." The station just moved in January to its new Mem Hall studio, and although Harvard provides the space, they paid for all the renovation and new equipment, Webb explained. The station is also in the process of converting to FM stereo broadcasting, installing a larger transmitter, and improving its closed circuit broadcasting to Harvard and Radcliffe...
...major linguistic groups that has not been granted a separate state. Sikh Leader Sant Fateh Singh, 54, threatened to go on a 15-day fast climaxed by self-immolation unless the demand was met. Anxious to avoid violence, the Working Committee, of which Prime Minister Indira Gandhi is a mem ber, at last committed the federal government to formation of a Punjabispeaking state...
Some time before, according to legend, the Cambridge Fire Department had sought to build a fire station in contemporary style on the triangle across from Mem Hall, but was told by the University that it would clash with the older building. The department built it in Georgian style instead--and then the University went ahead and built Burr Hall, to the firemen's chagrin. When the fire broke out, the story goes, they watched the tower burning from across the street and told inquirers that they didn't have enough water pressure to reach the blaze...