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...greatest number of students under the plan are sons of teachers, with engineers and farmers coming second and third. Other occupations represented included printers, service station men, truck drivers, a piano tuner, a carpenter, a lumberman, and one "unknown...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NATIONAL SCHOLARS INCLUDE MEN PROMINENT IN COLLEGE | 10/24/1941 | See Source »

Every early-rising radio tuner in Greater New York and environs has certainly heard John B. (for Bradley) Gambling some morning or other. With his Musical Clock, his all-in-fun setting-up exercises, cheerio music, wheezy gags, weather information and news scraps, John B. Gambling has been a WOR fixture for 15 years. Once he was a British seaman on a World War I mine sweeper. He got his job at WOR as a technician in 1925 at $30 a week. Now he says he makes $25,000 a year at his early-bird program, has had a parade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Anniversary Scoop | 3/18/1940 | See Source »

Died. Sir Charles W. Lindsay, 83, blind Canadian philanthropist, a piano-tuner who built up a $2,000,000 musical instrument business, was knighted in 1935 for his donations and services to the blind; of paralysis; in Montreal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Milestones: Nov. 20, 1939 | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

After Ignace Jan Paderewski, 78, collapsed minutes before his Manhattan concert* last week, Eldon G. Joubert, his piano-tuner and companion for 30 years, was asked if the Maestro would ever give another. Said Joubert sadly: "I wonder. He's worn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 5, 1939 | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

...wider fidelity range than wax recordings, film sound tracks suffer virtually no deterioration, since they are played back by a light ray, not by a needle. Engineer Miller plans a sound-track phonograph containing a changeable supply of recordings that may be selected and played just as a button-tuner radio is operated. Estimated phonograph price range: $150 to $3,000. Estimated cost of recordings: about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Miller's Way | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

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