Word: phonographs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Beatle humor is visual and aural. We laugh when we see them gaily fleeing an army of girls, or when we hear them tossing insults at one another. But their spontaneous charm does not survive the transition from phonograph and movie screen to printed page. In His Own Write needs the sight and sound of John and his three friends. Without them the book book is dull. Sometimes even grotty
...lonely antebellum brick house near Karnack, Texas, on Dec. 22, 1912. Her mother, Minnie Lee Patillo Taylor, a tall, eccentric woman from an old and aristocratic Alabama family, liked to wear long white dresses and heavy veils. She fussed over food fads, played grand opera endlessly on the phonograph, loved to read the classics aloud to tiny Lady Bird. She scandalized people for miles around by entertaining Negroes in her home, and once even started to write a book about Negro religious practices, called Bio Baptism. Naturally, most folks thought Minnie weird and standoffish. Says a longtime friend of Lady...
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...
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...
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...