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Show LDS Tabernacle Choir Praised In Magazine Article There isn'f a gag, a gat, or a gang-buster in the oldest, year-round,' year-round,' nation-wide broadcast in radio. A national magazine reports this week that the title goes unqualifiedly un-qualifiedly to a group of 375 men, women and children who have nothing to sell but the sacred sac-red strains of the world's best-known best-known hymns every Sunday morning. The story is of the great Mormon Tabernacle choir. Asustaining fixture over the Columbia Broadcasting system since 1929, the choir originates from Temple Square irr Salt Lake City, is heard as far away as Shanghai, and is comprised of the butcher, the baker and the homemaker of the Utah Capitol city. On its half-hour radio program, pro-gram, it prec""ts twice as many hymns of other denominations as it does Mormon hymns, and the Mormon church rates a mention men-tion only once or twice. "It is undoubtedly one of the finest choirs in the United States," the article says, "yet only four members are professional profes-sional musicians, and its conductor con-ductor takes as much pride in the fact that a whole row of its sopranos once was simultaneously simultaneous-ly absent having babies as he does in their ability to do justice jus-tice to Handel's 'Messiah.' " The only real community program pro-gram in radio represents a cross section of the professions and occupations of the peoole of Salt Lake City, including doctors, lawyers, mechanics, masons, ma-sons, mail carriers, truck drivers, driv-ers, nurses and housewives. |