Word: tubas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...turn of the century, always able to find a job, always quick to quit it when he had a row with the boss, purposeful K. T. Keller was a high-school boy in Mount Joy, Pa. Symbol of Walter Chrysler's youthful irresponsibility was his big silver-plated tuba, which he played in roundhouse bands, shipped from town to town in friendly cabooses while he rode up ahead in a boxcar with the hoboes. Mark of K. T. Keller's determination to go places was his position at the top of the Mount Joy High School graduating class...
...year Keller graduated (1901) Walter Chrysler lost his tuba, and the month Keller left the Mount Joy High School Chrysler married sweet-faced Della Forker in the Methodist church at their home town, Ellis, Kans. From then on, life was all business for Walter Chrysler. He left the railroad business as a shop foreman for Chicago Great Western, became works manager for American Locomotive Co., got his first job in the automobile business in 1911 (age 36) as works manager for Buick...
...Bell Telephone Laboratories had been monkeying with electrical transcription and reproduction. By means of their new recording and amplifying gadgets the phonographic disc could, for the first time, catch a close approximation of actual sound, from the topmost squeaks of the piccolo to the profoundest groans of the bass tuba. Morose manufacturers adopted the new gadgets in the middle 20s. Electrical recording failed to set the industry on the road to recovery. But it did lay a firmer foundation for the Industry's future growth. It remade a mechanical stunt into a musical instrument...
...year-old president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching,* believes that U. S. .colleges are too big and too bad. Each year, in his report for the Foundation, he offers fresh facts to prove his point. Last year he took colleges to task for buying tuba players with scholarships (TIME, Feb. 14, 1938). Last week Dr. Jessup led off the Foundation's 33rd annual report by giving the rough side of his tongue to another growing evil: tramp scholars...
...Krakauer Bros. The Wurlitzer, which will sell for less than $1,000, has two keyboards, one for piano strings, the other for any one of twelve electrically produced tones-tuba, cello, violin, flute...