Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Colonel Joel Elias Spingarn, 64, lifelong champion of the U. S. Negro, president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; after long illness; in Manhattan. Other Spingarn interests: a club for "Professors [like himself] Who Were Fired or Resigned Under Pressure from Columbia University," recreation centres for rural areas, boosting of the once-popular clematis* vine...
Scarlatti: Eleven Sonatas (Robert Casadesus, pianist; Columbia, 6 sides). Domenico Scarlatti's sonatas, some of them uncommonly modern for his time (1685-1757), were what the word originally meant, pieces "to be sounded," dances, preludes, fugues, etc. Casadesus plays them fastidiously...
Last Sunday U. S. radio listeners heard some of the music from the Library's stacks. Howard Barlow led Columbia Broadcasting Symphony through ten waltzes, polkas, quadrilles, marches of Johann Strauss and his contemporaries. The titles of the pieces told much of Vienna's ballroom life-Electrophor polka and Motoren waltzes, written for dances of technical students; Aesculap polka and Paroxysmen waltzes, for young medicos. A quadrille on English themes contained the tune of Just Before the Battle, Mother. The pieces, some performed for the first time in the U. S., did not call for waltzing...
...four-man committee to formulate a plan. Chosen to head it last week was Roswell Magill, father of the New Deal's 1938 Tax Bill, Under Secretary of the Treasury from early 1937 till last year when he resigned to return to his Manhattan law practice and Columbia teaching...
Edwin Howard Armstrong, bald, blue-eyed, well-heeled professor of electrical engineering at Columbia University, has made a tidy fortune for himself by inventing the super-regenerative and superheterodyne radio circuits. For the last 25 years he has been working on the problems of static, interference, tube noises and fading. Some time ago, in an effort to get perfectly clear reception, he devised a system of frequency modulation in the transmitter. According to standard broadcasting technique, which relies on amplitude modulation, this was heresy...