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...Smallpox Paper." Standard's success still rests squarely on a half-century-old invention by a Dayton tinkerer named Theodore Schirmer. Watching retail clerks make out sales slips one after another on a hand-cranked device, Schirmer noticed that the carbon copies often slipped out of alignment. He solved the problem by ringing both ends of the machine's rollers with sprockets that engaged holes punched along the margins of the forms and thus held all copies firmly in line...
...Eddie Bell's Guitar Headquarters in Manhattan, sales have increased some 400% in the last ten years; sheet-music sales for the guitar are up about 200% at Schirmer's in New York. The University of California at Berkeley boasts about 400 guitar students. Beverly Hills High School offers a class in the subject. More than half of the 400 students at the Boston School of Music are studying the guitar. Chicago's Old Town School of Folk Music has more than 100 guitar students ranging in age from ten to 70. Only last week, six Peace...
...those of a trusted bartender. He is entirely confident of the craftsman's skill and gratefully aware that such competence is increasingly rare. The latest Ambler amble (his first in four years) is less umbrous than such cloak-and-Luger exercises as A Coffin for Dimitrios and The Schirmer Inheritance, but it should be no disappointment...
...have an outspoken champion- Boston Composer-Musicologist Nicolas Slonimsky. Along with some 10,000 other menand women-about-music, the three have recently been embalmed in an impressive Slonimsky-built ossuary of pure research: the 1,855-page fifth edition of Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians (G. Schirmer...
...Manhattan's august music house, G. Schirmer Inc., do-it-yourself Calypso Kits (including bongo drums, a gourd and a pair of maracas) were selling briskly last week for $24.50 and up. Columbia Records has announced an album of calypso songs especially styled for children. Obscure pop singers are desperately shaking their hips and broadening their A's in the rush to learn calypso. And Hollywood is considering a dozen calypso films, including Calypso Grips So, and (taking advantage of the best of two possible worlds) Bop Girl Goes Calypso...