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Died. Ted Collins, 64, Kate Smith's manager and business partner for 34 years, a onetime phonograph-record salesman who in 1929 heard the unknown Kate sing a few lines in a Broadway show, quit his job to team with her in a company called "Kated," promoted the belt-'em-out singer into one of the hottest properties on radio and TV, making so much money (they grossed $27 million in their first 20 years) that he could indulge his passion for sports by dropping $1,000,000 on the unsuccessful New York Yanks football team...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jun. 5, 1964 | 6/5/1964 | See Source »

Nostalgic Surprises. Bain's horses work out in a plant that includes 95 teaching studios and 178 practice rooms, a library of 45,000 books, 10,000 scores and 25,000 phonograph records. Their productions are not surpassed in more than half a dozen opera houses in the country. But even at that, Bain thinks of his Opera Theater as Macy's thinks of its Broadway windows: the glamour of the opera is only a lure to attract students to the business of learning music. When 948 music school graduates let the music school know what had become...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Singing at Indiana | 3/27/1964 | See Source »

California's Mattel, Inc., the biggest toy company, will use more than 150,000 Ibs. of Saran filament for the hair of its bestselling and well-dressed Barbie Doll, another 5,000,000 midget phonograph records and needles-for its talking toys, as well as huge quantities of plastic, zinc and steel for its new line of bikes, tricycles and trucks; the line will have a battery-driven device called the VRROOM, which emits a roar like a motorcycle and is intended to catch every...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Industry: Visions of Dollars Dance in Their Heads | 3/20/1964 | See Source »

...Baker given Lyndon Johnson a stereo phonograph...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Investigations: The Silent Witness | 3/6/1964 | See Source »

Such difficulties have led to many relationships that stop a few steps short of outright merger. Common Market companies have entered into more than 30,000 marketing and manufacturing agreements. The Netherlands' Philips and Germany's Siemens jointly make and market phonograph records; Germany's Bleyle and France's Gillier sell their woolens in each other's stores...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Common Market: Economic Courtships | 2/28/1964 | See Source »

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