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...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...
...days with only 20 days' rations. Led by Tufts University Philosophy Professor Woodrow Wilson Sayre, 43, grandson of the late U.S. President, the amateur foursome-including a geology student, a Boston attorney, a Swiss schoolteacher-had cocksurely attempted to climb the unsealed 25,910-ft. Gyachung Kang peak without either oxygen or Sherpa guides...
...standard economic indicators are far from alarming. Industrial production edged up in May. reaching a record high. Nonfarm employment increased by more than the normal seasonal advance, achieved a new peak for the month of May. The average factory work week lengthened to 40.5 hours, a figure not exceeded since booming 1955. All in all said Commerce Secretary Luther Hodges after reading off a batch of statistics, "business still looks awfully good.'' Nevertheless, the New Frontier was worried...
Through the years, they were modified and improved until-at the peak of their heyday around 1923 when 205,556 were sold in the U.S. alone-player pianos could not only play loud and soft by themselves but could reproduce every nuance of shading and expression of a Paderewski or a Gershwin (both of whom sat down at a special recording piano and cut rolls on the Duo-Art label...
...shares changed hands in the final 30 minutes of trading, and the last transaction did not clear the ticker tape until 2½ hours after closing. In the second bleakest day in Wall Street's history, the Dow-Jones industrial index plunged 34.95 to 576.93-21% below its peak of last December...