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...professional quality of the music mark them as Lehrer at his best. So does the morbid references to various refinements of violent death, including cannibalism and necrophilia, that wind through the dittics. Also, a generous sprinkling of dirty jokes will probably discourage the cautious student from sending the disc as a Mothers' Day gift...
...inter-war period, the virtnose mastered five languages on his tours, and studied the contrabass at the Paris Conservatory. He made several records in Germany that are still being played on German disc jockey programs...
Plenty of new uses are already appearing. For example, Buick's Dynaflow transmission alone uses 20 Ibs. of aluminum v. 7 Ibs. formerly used in the entire automobile. Chrysler is using aluminum in disc brakes; Nash is using aluminum extrusions for doors. G.E. is using it to replace brass in the base and sockets of light bulbs. Building (aluminum window frames, doors, roofing, which never need painting and last virtually forever) is already using one-third of total output...
Undergraduate technicians are improving reception in Straus and Matthews Halls, where it has been weak in the part. Other steps in the station's expansion include the purchase of a $400 tape recorder and the setting up of a new studio to be used by disc jockeys. The recorder will be used for covering speeches, forums, musical events, and on-the-spot news, as soon as an amplier can be built...
...suggested a recording with Janssen conducting the Columbia Symphony. A little research revealed that half of the paraphrases had already been orchestrated, under the title Tati-Tati, by a pupil of Rimsky-Korsakov's, Nicolai Tcherepnine. Columbia put Tcherepnine's version on one side of an LP disc, Janssen's on the other...