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...Postmaster General Jim Farley, posting through the South on one of his periodic junkets (see p. 15). Officially, they went to honor Jefferson's Crawford Williamson Long, first doctor to operate under ether, 98 years ago. At noon, on the village square, the Postmaster General sold a sheaf of new two-cent stamps, bearing the bearded countenance of Dr. Long, to the only survivor of his twelve children-his aged daughter, Mrs. Eugenia Long Harper...
...Congress was ready to award him $100,000, but Chemist Jackson stormed Washington, violently denounced Morton as a fraud, claimed that he had given Morton the tip on the powers of ether. Up popped Dr. Long with a sheaf of documents to prove that he was first. Confronted by conflicting claims, Congress did nothing. Morton died a pauper in 1868. Jackson went mad, died in an asylum several years later. During the Civil War, Long buried his documents in the woods. Later he dug them up and stored them in the garret. He died an embittered...
Bach: Little Organ Book (E. Power Biggs; Victor: 6 sides). Organist Biggs makes Harvard's 18th-Century-model organ sparkle in a sheaf of Gothic choral preludes...
Boccherini-Francaix: Scuola di Ballo (London Philharmonic, Antal Dorati conducting; Columbia: four sides). A sheaf of charming 18th-Century salon pieces collected and orchestrated as a ballet by tricky, French, 27-year-old Modernist Frangaix...
...every year in the U. S., most are put out by three companies: Victor, Columbia and Decca. Year ago, a big-jawed, 39-year-old Victor official named Eli Oberstein decided there was room for a fourth. He resigned his job as Victor's recording manager, took a sheaf of contracts for Victor artists with him, rounded up $500,000 worth of backing, bought and refurbished an old six-story plant in Scranton, Pa. and launched U. S. Record Corp...