Word: discs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Moe Asch hit the market with ten albums (under the new label of Disc) which included such typically offbeat items as Trinidad Calypsos by "Lord (Rum & Coca-Cola) Invader," new "sinful" songs by the Negro ex-convict Leadbelly, a newly famed jazz trio playing Harlem blues and a Creole lullaby, Mandolinist Bess Lomax singing Careless Love ("Now my apron strings won't pin"), four French Resistance writers reading their own poems and editorials...
...they think it has a more complicated structure. Last week two University of Virginia astronomers reported that the "red giant" stars seemed to be concentrated in a rough sphere near the hub of the galaxy. The commoner white stars (like the sun) had spread out in a wider, thinner disc. This discovery suggested that the red giants and the white stars may have had different origins. Perhaps all the galaxies had been formed in two great and separate spurts of creation...
...hrer's Face. When it sold a phenomenal 1,500,000 records, Spike took the City Slickers on a road tour. Recalls Spike: "We were too corny for sophisticated people, and too sophisticated for corny people." But by the end of the tour, collectors and radio disc-jockeys were calling for more. He set about deflating some of Tin Pan Alley's more pretentious tunes. The City Slickers played Chloe straight, with all the tom-toms and jungle mating cries that everybody else affects, then gave it the business ("Chloe - where are you, you old bat you?"). They...
...Victor improvements (flat disc record, greater fidelity) on Thomas Edison's invention financed archeological jaunts to Easter Island, Guatemala, a sounding of the Puerto Rico Deep in a $1,500,000 yacht, and a $1,000,000 University of Pennsylvania medical research foundation...
Humming at their work, astronomers and technicians were busy again at Mt. Palomar Observatory, Calif. The great 200-inch mirror, neglected during the war, was still far from completion. But soon the grinders and polishers would be working at its delicate surface. Meanwhile, a concrete disc of the same diameter and weight (18 tons) was doubling for the mirror in the almost finished largest-telescope-in-the-world, while final tests were made on its intricate controls. In another year, or perhaps two, Mt. Palomar would be open for business...