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...made more mistakes both when noise was turned on and when it was turned off. Continuous music has been found to make cows give more milk, and to combat tedium and raise production in offices and factories. Muzak, a leading piper of auditory tonic, has different programs for factory (brassier), office (subtler), supermarket (a combination of the two), and travel, mainly for airplanes. Plane fare is carefully screened for content; Stormy Weather and I Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance With You are out. Muzak once played I've Got a Feeling I'm Falling...
Sticky Windows. The larger corporations seem to attract the brassier corporate clowns. At Chrysler Corp's meeting in Detroit last week, President Lynn Townsend was forced to listen patiently while a stockholder complained that his Chrysler transmission had dropped out after only 2,000 miles and another beefed about a sticky car window. A.T. & T.'s 80th annual meeting in Philadelphia was interrupted by a woman who raced down the aisle in clown's costume to protest that Chairman Frederick R. Kappel had opened the meeting improperly. "Keep still long enough," barked Kappel...
Mambo writhed its way through halt a dozen tropical and semitropical countries (Philippines President Ramon Magsaysay called it a "national calamity") before it seeped into the U.S. YANKS DIG THAT MAMBO BEAT, Variety's front page announced last June. It ran like quicksilver through the brassier ballrooms, and even rolled into such tony spots as Manhattan s Waldorf-Astoria...
...amateur's troubles: for the debut he rented a piano he particularly liked, but he broke a string at rehearsal and had to use an instrument with a brassier tone; then he found that the tuner had cleaned the keyboard and left it so slippery he had to claw at the keys to keep his fingers from skidding. Things went better last week (he warned the management not to clean the keys), but his powerful performance knocked all the A strings out of tune early in the program...
Skinny budgets and antiquated equipment forced them to use natural lighting and to press amateurs into service as actors. These techniques, born of economic necessity, gave their films a fresh, simple quality that made Hollywood's chrome-edged product seem brassier than ever. They took their themes from the world around them: war, occupation, poverty, misery and human courage. Sex was merely incidental to such plots, but since it was handled in the casual manner in which Italians regard sex, it startled U.S. audiences, accustomed to the sniggering censorship of the Breen office...