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Using a harmonic analyser which gives a phonographic record of each sound, the scientists dissected 64 notes from the violins, played by Jascha Heifetz, world-famous musician. The artist sat in a special sound box and held each note for four or five seconds while vibrating pens wrote the delicate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HEIFETZ PLAYS FOR SCIENCE AS ANALYSER SPLITS SOUND | 11/8/1938 | See Source »

Mr. Balanchine has again shown a nice discretion in his adaptation of the ballet to musical comedy; at one point he combines a tap and a ballet to create an extremely pleasing and original number. His "tape-worm" finale to the first act was something of a disappointment, but it...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 11/8/1938 | See Source »

¶The animal kingdom, always useful to cartoonists, provided striking companion pieces from the pens of Harold Talburt of Scripps-Howard and Hugh Hutton of the Philadelphia Inquirer. Talburt's showed the master magician producing a Deficit Hippopotamus as lesser men produce rabbits. Hutton's showed a third...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Why Not? | 8/1/1938 | See Source »

In the Republican National Convention of 1880, Joseph Buffington cast 36 consecutive votes for Ulysses S. Grant. In the 46 years since 1892, when President Harrison gave him a Federal judgeship, he has written (in longhand) more than 5,000 opinions, filling 243 volumes of the Federal Reporter, wearing out...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: Oldster Unlaxed | 6/13/1938 | See Source »

This highly complex, most professional diplomatic deal was closed by signing with quill pens one protocol, eight accords and declarations, three exchanges of notes. Total: about 5,000 words.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Peace in Rome | 4/25/1938 | See Source »

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