Word: disks
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Died. Norman ("Uncle Normie") Ross, 57, Chicago disk jockey and onetime Olympic swimming champion (1920); of a heart attack; in Evanston, Ill. "Big Moose" Ross claimed that he learned to swim by reading an instruction manual, but he broke 72 world records, won both the 400 and the 1,500-meter Olympic races at Antwerp in 1920. Hired by a Chicago radio station in 1931, Ross attracted over a million Midwestern listen ers with his early morning "400 Hour" of classical music and light chatter...
...their faces, wear purple lipstick. Their hats are trimmed with swizzle sticks, foxtails and pipe cleaners. Shouting the password "Zorch!" (fuzz-beard lingo for Hollywood's "colossal!"), they storm into a radio studio in the Palace Hotel five nights a week to pay homage to a bop-talking disk jockey named Richard Bogardus Blanchard. In five months "Red" Blanchard, 33, has zoomed from a routine job as staff announcer at station KCBS to a position that his pressagents describe as "uncrowned king of juvenile Northern California...
Songwriters Burrello and Murray thought they had made a pretty effective protest record, ordered 500 copies for disk jockeys. But in two weeks the composers have received orders for more than 100,000 copies, and the demand shows no sign of falling off. Tunesmith Murray is frightened. He is afraid, he says, that the team will become known as the "Horrible Twins" and will never be able to write anything serious again. Worse than that, the U.S. public may "have a secret desire for really horrible music. It's getting into the psychiatric...
...demonstration just about eliminated rival CBS as a competitor, even though the FCC approved CBS's whirling disk system 2% years ago (TIME, Oct. 23, 1950 et seq.) before a Government order shelved production of color sets. CBS President Frank Stanton has already indicated that to go ahead with CBS's incompatible system would be "tilting at windmills...
Symphony Sid, disk jockey, Nat Hentoff, writer for "Downbeat," and George Wein, owner of Storyville and Mahogany Hall, led a forum of the newly-formed Jazz Society in Burr A last night...