Word: plays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ghosts & Feathers. What chiefly confounded the Americans in Moscow who have followed Van's career, e.g., Juilliard Dean Mark Schubart, Pianist Norman Shetler, is that he is not playing significantly better in Russia than he was able to play in the U.S. He has always had the technical equipment: the twelve-note span, the bravura style, the big percussive attack. But in preparation for his Moscow trip (which he says was revealed to him a year ago in a séance as a journey to "an agrarian country" where he would win a gold medal), Cliburn...
...research problem was complicated by a marketing problem: how to convert the public to stereo gradually so as not to endanger the fortune the industry already has invested in monaural LPs. There were two possible ways. One was to develop a cartridge and stylus that would play both straight monaural records and stereo records. The other way-Columbia's-was to develop a stereo record that would sound good with the standard monaural pickup and could also be used when the owner got around to buying stereo sound gear...
...play the stereo recordings monaurally over his present equipment, the listener will need only a stereo cartridge, which he can now buy in the $4-to-$10 price range. But if he wants true stereo sound he will need a second amplifier and speaker. The whole setup could easily cost him less than some hi-fi rigs, since stereo achieves impressive sound even with small speakers and low-powered amplifiers...
...Before the Sports Center Authority undertook the tedious business of condemnation, O'Malley got up $5,000,000 as his share of the venture. He sold Ebbets Field to a real-estate operator named Marvin Kratter for $3,000,000, and signed a lease for the Dodgers to play there for three more years. He sold his Montreal farm club's park for $1,000,000, disposed of his Fort Worth park for another...
Right on the Nose. To the Dodger team, the echoing, concrete-enclosed cow pasture is just another place to play. To the Dodger president, it is the brightest achievement of a vagrant, varicolored career. For Walter O'Malley, the tortuous trail to California began in The Bronx, where he was born on Oct. 9, 1903. He was the only son of Manhattan Politico Edwin J. O'Malley, a man who could trace his ancestry back to County Mayo, and Alma Feltner O'Malley, a woman whose family background was stolidly German. At Culver Military Academy young...