Ever since last year, when he contributed $160,000 to the then-ailing, now-flourishing Detroit Symphony, Henry H. Reichhold has had the musical world abuzz with rumors. Said rumor: he was about to start 1) a musical magazine of national circulation; 2) a new recording company to rival Columbia, Victor and Decca; 3) a national concert-booking agency; 4) a national record-of-the-month club.
Last week Henry Reichhold really did start something. The Austrian-born chemist (who quit Henry Ford in 1927 in an argument over a raise in salary to $7 a day, now runs his own...
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