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Dates: during 1930-1939
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By last week some test publishers had broken off diplomatic relations with Professor Buros. Nevertheless, the professor was almost ready to publish a second yearbook. This time, instead of 133 experts he had 245, among them such famed testers and educators as University of London's Charles Spearman, Yale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Now, Oscar! | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

This season, grand opera at Manhattan's Metropolitan opened with a slightly fussier fuss than usual. Last week, however, the Met got in the groove-a few new voices and a new red carpet, but the same old scenery, same old gilded box holders, and opera's perennial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Opera Buff | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

Since 1931, for the privilege of broadcasting to some 10,000,000 music lovers and a countless short-wave audience, NBC has paid the Metropolitan a cool $100,000 a season. Some years it has been higher, with sponsors like Lucky Strike, Listerine. This year there is no sponsor, but...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Opera Buff | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

In Box 44 sit two men the radio audience never hears. Engineer Charles C. Grey has a control panel at his fingertips; Production Man Herbert Liversidge hardly lifts his eyes from an edited, last-minute score. Liversidge reads the score some six bars ahead, keeps Grey posted with hand signals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Opera Buff | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

To most radio listeners, however, a third man in Box 44 is synonymous with opera itself. He is 42-year-old Milton John Cross, a huge, humble, bespectacled, music-charmed announcer whose cultured, genuflecting voice seems to his public to come straight from NBC's artistic soul. Radio listeners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Opera Buff | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

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