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...Walter had rigged up a hi-fi record player, and Toscanini used it to study his old recordings, listening for flaws.* Walter always tried to be around to help : the old man, never an able hand with mechanical gadgets, is likely to jiggle the tone arm and scratch the records. Evenings on the island, the're would be recorded concerts in his bedroom of music that Toscanini had either recorded or broadcast. He would sit on his bed as the music played, eyes blazing as if he were on the podium, conducting energetically and singing the music to himself...
...music critic for the New York Times. Among his notable stories: TIME'S cover on Rosemary Clooney (Feb. 23). Harman keeps constant watch for new talent, e.g., Concert Pianist Charles Rosen (Dec. 29), Jazz Pianist Dave Brubeck (Nov. 10). He also spends days in his soundproofed, hi-fi-equipped office reviewing the most interesting new records. Musician Harman is often hard on Critic Harman, for this reason: "There's often no way to describe music except by music. Words can be fifth-rate. So my problem is to describe the music in terms of the other senses...
...remember when Mr. Churchill made his famous speech [in 1946, warning of Russian aggression] at Fulton, Mo.?" asked Rifkind. Answered Winchell: "I panned hell out of it." He admitted having used in his column such Winchellese as "Sovvy-bogey, Reds-under-the-beds-panicker, Bolshy boo, the fi-fo-fuming of forumites" to blast the critics of Russia. Mindful that Winchell bases most of his attacks on Post Editor Wechsler on Wechsler's admitted membership in the Young Communist League 15 years ago (TIME, Jan 21, 1952 et seq.), Rifkind needled: "Do you think that, because Winchell was wrong...
...Fi. In Chicago, Magnavox Co. showed off a mass-produced, high-fidelity phonograph with four speakers. Capable of reproducing sounds up to 12,000 cycles (twice the range of most mass-produced sets), Magnasonic has a three-speed record changer and an eight-tube amplifier-preamplifier mounted in a mahogany console cabinet. Price: about...
Columbia claims that the tone of its phonograph, which will sell for $139.50 and $144.50 (depending on the cabinet), is a match for all but the most expensive custom-made hi-fi sets. It reproduces tones from a low of 50 cycles per second to a high of 12,000 (the ordinary hi-fi range), compared to a smaller tonal range of 80-6,000 c.p.s. in most phonographs. Columbia gets its reproduction chiefly by an extra thick, solid wooden cabinet (which eliminates "tinny" vibration) and two 6-in. speakers located at each side of the phonograph, instead...