Word: tape
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...forcing him from the throne. He surrounded Baudouin with advisers who were usually at odds with government policy, interfered with affairs in the Belgian Congo,* and even flew to Africa to make sure that his unprogressive Governor General was kept in office. Royal speeches by King Baudouin were tape-recorded and put on the air with scant notice to Socialist Premier Gaston Eyskens or the Cabinet...
...expected to feel uneasy about his defection to the growing ranks of packagers-except that his package will be so big as to constitute something of a network itself. As boss of Hubbell Robinson, Jr. Associates. Inc. he intends to try everything possible-musicals, 90-minute dramas, special events, tape and film shows from all over the world. Since he will own all the shows himself and will continue to profit from their residual income long after he pockets his hefty salary checks, Hub Robinson has latched onto a classy mass indeed...
...song came drifting out of a littered yard between two tenements. The young man passing in the street stopped for a moment to listen, then turned into the yard and unslung the tape recorder he always carries over one shoulder. The children's voices recorded on that muggy summer afternoon are preserved in an album called New York 19 (Folkways). The man who recorded them is 35-year-old Tony Schwartz, folklorist with a passion for the sounds of his time and place...
...basis for nearly a dozen pop songs, including Sippin' Soda (Guy Mitchell), The Pendulum Song (Nelson Riddle), Wimoweh (Gordon Jenkins and the Weavers). In his midtown Manhattan apartment, such singers as Pete Seeger, Josh White, Harry Belafonte have sampled Schwartz's 1,500 hours of recorded tape, including more than 5,000 songs from some 40 countries...
Sharing the Business. Father of the Japanese industry is Masaru Ibuka. 51, a prewar movie sound technician who in 1948 set up what is now the Sony Corp. to make tape recorders and other sound equipment. Hearing of the development of transistors at Bell Telephone Laboratories, Ibuka produced laboratory samples, brought them to the U.S. to arrange the first Japanese transistor-patent licensing agreement. While many U.S. electronics men concentrated on industrial and military uses of transistors. Ibuka went after the consumer market, started the Japanese fad for miniature radios, eventually attracted some 100 competitors into the field...