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Gershwin: Porgy and Bess (Lawrence Winters, baritone; Camilla Williams, soprano; Inez Matthews, soprano; Warren Coleman, baritone; Avon Long, tenor; orchestra and chorus conducted by Lehman Engel; Columbia, 6 sides LP). The first complete recording of Gershwin's jazz classic reveals that the work does not add up to the sum of its memorable parts. Summertime, I Got Plenty o' Nuttin', It Ain't Necessarily So still sparkle like diamonds, but in an ocean of dross. Recording: excellent...
...Farnborough show left Britons feeling pleased and proud. Always strong on jet engines (e.g., the Rolls-Royce Avon), Britain proved with its show last week that its designers are now producing military aircraft the equal or superior of any in the world...
...undeniably the keynote of the trade. A new publisher, Gold Medal books is becoming a dangerous competitor for his big brothers, Bantam, Avon, Signet, and Pocketbooks, Inc. Gold Medal specializes in the facts of life at the expense of plausibility, and is making a big success of it in the Square. Sample titles: "Satan Is A Woman," "I, Mobster," "Women's Barracks." Titles like "Forever Amber" and "Star Money" (at 50 cents apiece) are of course, old favorites...
...list of credits: Director Robert Flaherty, father of the documentary film. It will be a glorified trailer, shot in color, and intended to show just what Cinerama can do that ordinary movies cannot. Sample items: a helicopter flight over Niagara Falls, the Salzburg Festival, Shakespearean plays at Stratford-on-Avon, possibly the Sadler's Wells Ballet...
Unlike the radical swept-wing design of modern U.S. jet jobs-fighters and bombers-the Canberra is basically a handsomely cleaned-up version of traditional designs, with a wing that looks fairly conventional to the man on the ground. Powered by two Rolls-Royce Avon turbojet engines, it is rated at a top speed above 600 m.p.h., can be fitted with wingtip tanks to extend its range. The Canberra was designed as a high-altitude radar bomber, can also perform all normal fighter maneuvers, and has shown possibilities as a low-level ground support plane. Said Pilot Callard: "A most...