Word: pipings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Leathery, pot-bellied Tom Garry was the Kelly-Nash henchman who had charge of Stadium decorations. By prearrangement, he also had an electrical pipe line to the loudspeaker circuit, which was supposed to be controlled exclusively from the convention rostrum. In the hour of his triumph last week he was ensconced in a tiny basement room, where the amplifier circuits were centred. Six times he ran from "the catacombs" to Mayor Kelly's box and up into the galleries to survey the milling, parading, shouting results of his tongue work, then dashed back to his microphone...
...rhythms which were previously considered nonmusical. He hopes some day to make use of electrical instruments capable of playing sliding tones, get any desired sounds in any desired rhythm. For the present, Percussionist Cage contents himself with "dragons' mouths," wood blocks, rice bowls hit with chopsticks, temple gongs, pipe lengths, secondhand brake drums, baby rattles, maracas, wind glass, thunder sheets, washboards, cowbells, "fin-gersnaps & footstomps," flower pots, güiro, sirens (for the use of which he had to get police permission), claves, police whistles, the jawbone...
...issue of the British journal Na ture which reached the U. S. last week, a new approach to absolute zero, suggested by several investigators, was explained by Dr. Charles Galton Darwin. He is the calm, pipe-smoking director of the Na tional Physical Laboratory, grandson of Evolution's great Charles Darwin. In effect the method is to work down as far as possible with the magnetism of molecules, then continue with the magnetism in the nuclei (cores) of the atoms themselves. In this way, researchers can plausibly expect to get down to one hundred-thousandth, possibly to one millionth...
Since the death of its first rector, Rev. James Dobbin, Episcopalian Shattuck has been chiefly headed by laymen. Last week, to replace retired Headmaster James S. ("The Bull") Guernsey, Shattuck inducted a clergyman. He was Rev. Donald G. Henning, 33, pipe-smoking, resonant rector of Christ Church, St. Paul. Not an Old Shad but a Toledo-bred onetime Roman Catholic, Shattuck's new head helped work his way through Kenyon College by fiddling in a band, cut his missionary teeth in South Dakota's Rose bud Indian Reservation, where he had four white communicants on his 110-mile...
Patterned after the WMCA original, the CBS-Army program will pipe music by the U. S. Military Academy Band from West Point, stress the opportunities of advancement the Army offers. Interviewed by veteran Radio Actor Ray Perkins, a major in the reserve corps, new recruits will explain why they enlisted; old-timers will describe their happy lot; mess sergeants will dwell on the tastiness of Army fare; Army wives will rejoice about life among the soldiers. Adding dignity to the show will be many an Army bigwig like Lieut. General Hugh Aloysius Drum, Commanding General of the First Army...