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...like cathedrals. Listeners gathered round them with a concentration that bordered on worship. (In accordance with the nostalgia revival, those Gothic appliances are being remade, but now they are composed of plastic and run on transistors.) Oldtime daytime broadcasts were principally devoted to the knitted brow and the purling organ of soap operas. Our Gal Sunday asked the question: "Can this girl from a mining town in the West find happiness as the wife of a wealthy and titled Englishman?" Answer: No-five afternoons a week. Backstage Wife followed the fortunes of an unassuming lady, Mary Noble, married...
...organ is lit up like the stage at Radio City Music Hall. Overblown poppies bloom in Oriental splendor in the organist's iridescent paisley jacket. At the keyboard, he rocks vigorously in gigue time, his rhinestone-decorated black suede shoes dancing over the pedals. Cascading waves of sound shake Manhattan's Carnegie Hall. Then, with a puff of smoke, the organist disappears. Overhead, a glowing portrait of a rotund face with crimped curls and dimpled chin flashes on a screen. The overflow audience explodes in cheers for Virgil Fox and Johann Sebastian Bach...
...rejected the argument on the theory that the heart would never have been removed if the man had not first been fatally shot in the head. Regardless of the opposing rulings, Stanford Heart Surgeon Norman Shumway is worried that both cases will discourage the use of assault victims as organ donors. The Flores case, however, will be appealed, leaving it to a higher California court to decide whether a medical determination of death before transplant surgery meets the meticulous requirements of criminal...
...should be too much put off. The book's quip-filled tirades, like Shaw's prefaces, provide a splendid intellectual fix on the drama. Coffin temporarily leaves his wife and children, as well as Rinsler's movement, which proves as unscrupulous as any Establishment organ. He then tries to practice one-on-one enlightenment as straw boss to a crew of black migrant apple pickers on his ancestral New Hampshire estate. The results are hilarious but depressing...
...does an occasional TV story for CBS news programs, Osgood, 40, is not certain that video is his métier. He thinks that he lacks the "graphic eye" necessary for good TV news pieces. Words and music are something else. He enjoys playing Bach on his electronic organ (favorite piece: Invention No. 8 in F). His love of sound is reflected in the off-the-cuff poetry he began writing while in the Army (among his lyrical credits: 25 published songs, including Nancy Wilson's Black Is Beautiful...