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...Garner has little to worry about: he made close to $100,000 last year by taking off in his own groove. Pittsburgh-born, he started at the piano when he was three, playing by ear the music he heard on the phonograph. At seven, he turned pro, played piano with an outfit called the Candy Kids on a Pittsburgh radio station. He has played with bands, but now settles for a trio ("Three's a crowd, three's enough...
...pseudo-Proust is, all inadvertently, the funniest of Author Calisher's impersonations. In Point of Departure, a double soliloquy conducted by the two members of a love affair, the interminable sentences curl so concentrically and wearily that they come to sound like a playback on a run-down phonograph. The Bowenism is a sight more readable. Letitia, Emeritus, the story of a "backward" girl whose seduction by a prurient old teacher topples a domino-row of calamities, is managed with the firm Bowen wrist and the sure fingering of details. Yet, somehow, though Author Calisher has fingered her characters...
...breakfast of grapefruit, a four-minute egg, toast & coffee, put on two shirts (wool over cotton) and, despite chilly weather, hiked along the Key West sea wall before the town was awake. The drizzle ruled out his swim at Truman Beach, but he spent the morning indoors beside the phonograph, listening to Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite, Chopin's Polonaise and Brahms's Symphony...
...Brooks House, which can be "used" by students all over the world. At present, the ISIS with the help of the Ivy League Radio Network is preparing a pamphlet on the establishment and maintenance of a student radio station. Material for such "special projects" will sometimes be put on phonograph records for distribution abroad. The library uses both geographical areas and subject matter as the bases for its indexes...
Secondly, it will permit instructors in one building to make rapid use of phonograph records stored in other places such as Lamont's Woodbury Room. The records can be broadcast...