Voices from the grave by Terry Teachout

In today's Wall Street Journal "Sightings" column I write about surviving sound recordings of the speaking voices of men and women born in the nineteenth century. Here's an excerpt. * * * In 1931, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., the oldest person ever to sit on the U.S. Supreme Court, turned 90. By then the seemingly […]

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