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...subsequently found to be James Gaffney '64. "We're picketing because we don't think the House should be used for this kind of thing," Gaffney said. He refused to comment on whether he was violating army regulations by picketing in uniform. In the background, a victrola played "Be Kind to Our Fine-Feathered Friends...
Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique (Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra: RCA Victrola). Pierre Monteux gives a fine reading of his fellow countryman's most popular work. Made in 1960, this is one of an armful of records recently dropped from Victor's big catalogue and now reissued at about half their former price on a revived, well-remembered label: Victrola...
...twin brother and I were eleven or thereabouts at the peak of the player-piano era. At home we listened to young Elman, young Heifetz and Maude Powell on the Victrola, but at Grandma's house there was a player piano. It didn't take long for our little minds to discover that by unwinding the rolls the length of the living room and entry hall and rewinding them in reverse we could achieve a definite departure from approved pianola techniques...
When Leontyne was five, Kate traded in the family Victrola as down payment for a piano. "When she came home from school." says Kate, "that child had one-half of a fit." On the other side of town, on North Fifth Avenue, lived the Alexander Chisholms. Elizabeth Wisner Chisholm was the daughter of a lumber baron, and Alexander Chisholm a Vermonter who met his wife while she was a music major at Smith...
...process of such deep thinking, Vag had found it helpful to stretch out on his couch. "I really can apply myself better this way," he reminded the victrola. So there he stayed, reading carefully for ten minutes...