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...arrangers at his disposal, he is continuing his curious task of building music directly for the microphone. His method is to start one player on a rhythm or a phrase of melody, add another instrument, adjust the balance between the two, throw in a dash of drumming or a splash of saxophone, and simmer the resultant mixture until ready for recording. With the help of recordings and re-recordings he can finally work up this concoction into a sort of musical composition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Phonographer | 9/12/1938 | See Source »

Aquaplane Race (Sun. 3 p.m., MBS) from Catalina Island to Hermosa Beach, Calif., a splash-by-splash account...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Programs Previewed: Aug. 8, 1938 | 8/8/1938 | See Source »

...Business and the loser has been the nation: instead of spending their normal $700,000,000 a year in expansion and replacement, the utilities have been getting along on $130,000,000. When renewed Depression jabbed this point home to the President last fall there was a sudden splash of headlines about a utility truce. It failed to come off. Last week there was another splash, and this time there was definite progress in settling both major differences...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: No Death Sentence | 5/23/1938 | See Source »

...Splash. Soon presses in Rome, Paris, London and Manhattan will pour out selections from D'Annunzio's "thousands of love letters," for his will characteristically provides that, now he is dead, they are to be published at once to make the biggest possible splash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Poet's Funeral | 3/14/1938 | See Source »

...should say they will," asserted Warner.... "Primitive artists could not splash around with commercially marketed tools the way lots of modern artists do. They themselves had to create both their artworks with sweat and thought...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CALIFORNIA, HERE I COME! | 3/9/1938 | See Source »

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