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...that cigarette commercials are banned from radio as well as TV, some tobacco men are examining a device that can deliver a recorded 20-second commercial from cigarette vending machines. Called ACMRU (Audio Commercial Message Repeating Unit), the new product sits atop a cigarette machine and resembles an illuminated advertising sign the size of two shoe boxes placed end to end. When an unsuspecting smoker puts his first coin in the slot, ACMRU can launch into any one of 16 to 20 spoken messages or singing jingles from a cassette tape player concealed inside...
Composed of chips of life, snatches of dialogue, news flashes, commercial interruptions, sight gags and puns arranged to resemble an eccentric audio-visual TV script, The Sweetmeat Saga is a nicely transparent put-on about the disappearance of Pookie and Paul Sweetmeat, twin rock superstars of the '60s. In keeping with the author's mythic intent, Pookie and Paul never appear. As the subjects of a nation-stopping search, however, their presence is never in doubt...
...star, unquestionably, was Ustinov. Without his insightful improvisation and mannered performance, the program would have been as forced as some of the old You Are There sagas or as deadly as a grade-school audio-visual lesson. Ustinov may do an encore when the series deals with King George III. But the next confrontation, tentatively scheduled for September, will feature either Firebrand Samuel Adams or "Washingham" himself. CBS hopes to land Richard Burton to play Adams, George C. Scott as Washington. Sevareid will do the interrogating again, though under the FCC "Fairness Doctrine" the British Empire might properly demand that...
...room shows the decisive break that Gertrude had with her brother Leo in collecting. (Unfortunately, only the audio-guide tour points out that this room consists of works Gertrude chose alone, without the assistance of Leo). Where Leo had chosen bold Matisses and sensuous Bonnards and Renoirs, Gertrude chose the more analytical Cubists...
...interest at national parks and historic and military shrines. For the nervous city dweller, Leisure Data Inc. of Manhattan offers 20 minutes of the barks and snarls of an extremely annoyed German shepherd. The tape is designed to be turned on when a potential intruder nears. Time-Life Audio is preparing a new monthly "cassette magazine" called The Executive Voice, containing interviews with top business leaders, which will be available to subscribers for $80 a year...