Word: rca
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Usually he arrives at his office on the 29th floor of Rockefeller Center's RCA Building at 9 a.m. He dislikes paper shuffling so much that his broad, flat-topped desk is almost always clean of everything except a big blotter. At 5 p.m. he usually leaves for home-and he tries not to take any work with him. On the way, he drops in at the University Club for a swim. He feels that a little exercise every day is the reason why he has not missed a day's work in 30 years...
Last week, it was announced that Toscanini will shortly record two or more operas (probably La Traviata and La Boheme). If RCA Victor can beat Columbia Records to the draw (Columbia last month signed a five-year contract with the Metropolitan Opera), Toscanini's will be the first full-length opera ever recorded...
What gave M-G-M an even hungrier feeling was the sensational sale (some 800,000) of Pianist Jose Iturbi's recording of Chopin's Polonaise in A Flat from A Song To Remember. But most of the gravy from this platter went to RCA, which made it. M-G-M decided to cash in itself on recordings by its stars...
Bach: Arias (Marian Anderson, contralto, with the RCA Victor Chamber Orchestra, Robert Shaw conducting; Victor, 6 sides). The mighty-voiced contralto, holding herself down to a small orchestra, is not at her best. Included are arias from three cantatas, the Christmas Oratorio and the Passion According to St. Matthew. Performance: fair...
...gist of it: there are two systems of television-all electronic (RCA), which has yet to go beyond black & white, and will not have color before 1951; part-mechanical (CBS), which has already developed color telecasting. The 12,000 U.S. sets today are black & white electronic, and many experts contend that in the end some sort of electronic method will be universally adopted for colors. It is up to FCC to decide whether color shall be introduced now, with mechanical television, or whether it must wait on all electronic development. Until FCC makes up its mind, few want...