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...performers and critics, somehow seem to start their careers on the piano. This week's cover subject, Soprano Leontyne Price, had a doll piano at three, took her first lessons at 3½. Her TIME Boswell, Contributing Editor Richard Murphy, first studied piano at four; his researcher, Ruth Brine, who joined in the long interviews with Soprano Price, began piano at three. Murphy, the son of Columbia University Music Professor Howard Ansley Murphy, became an opera addict at ten, recalls falling in love with Madame Butterfly as a frequent standing-room auditor in his early teens...
Researcher Brine, who has worked on more than a dozen TIME covers in her 16 years with the magazine, branched out into the violin at seven, still retains enough of her musical knowledge to coach her three children. Music Editor Murphy has not touched a piano since he enlisted in the Navy at 17 in 1944. His constant preoccupation on the job with music listening and concert going has given him a set of musical references that ranges from Pal Joey to Wozzeck, and a special affection for Verdi, Brahms, Wallingford Riegger and Charles Ives...
Under traditional purification methods, salt or brackish water is either heated to a vapor and then condensed, leaving foreign matter behind, or else it is frozen into ice, thereby separating out the brine, and then remelted to obtain a pure product. The Ionics system, developed by Executive Vice President Walter Juda, does neither. It is an electrical process that exploits the natural attraction of opposite charges. Ionics uses a 4-ft. stack of 18-by-20-in. plastic membranes, 1/32-in. thick and 1/25-in. apart, between which the brackish water circulates. When voltage is applied across the stack, positively charged ions...
Christmas came 13 days early for anyone in Cambridge selling cold-weather clothing. With barely a fifth of the staff on the job, the Coop disposed of about 400 pairs of galoshes before running out. Shivering customers also bought up the entire stock of gloves, earmuffs, and caps. At Brine's sporting goods store, students purchased over $600 worth of Head skis before...
Towers & Tangos. Blackpool's visitors can poke a curious toe into "the world's largest outdoor swimming pool" (1,600,000gallons of cold filtered brine) or ascend the highest tower in Britain, a red-painted, 520-ft. structure that once in a blue sky affords a view of Wales's Mount Snowdon, 150 miles distant. They yo-yo back and forth between fish 'n' chip houses and some of the United Kingdom's most capacious pubs (Blackpool has 105, one of which can handle 1,000 guzzlers at a time). They also toss away...