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...Mink in Hi-Fi (Monique Van Vooren; RCA Victor). Belgian-born Show Girl Van Vooren's voice has the tinny resonance of a sound heard through a drainpipe, and her accent in English is an astonishing blend of Gaul and Georgia Cracker: "Laak a queen in the royal foah postah . . . Ah can face zat lovely place called bed." The combination is disastrous in the slow, sexy register, but in such shouting numbers as Le Rififi and My Man Is Good, V.V. carries the show on muscle alone...
Reward did not come too soon. Max had poured a lot of sweat and faith into his old chicken coop; he borrowed heavily from family and friends, got help from another hi-fi lover, Space Surgeon Colonel Paul Stapp (TIME, Sept. 12, 1955), who lent him much of his big collection of LP records, is now a stockholder. Rothman traded radio time for food and furniture, and Sima, an amateur artist, illustrated the monthly programs. In return for job printing, the Alamogordo newspaper got free newscasts. To pay for delivery of a fifth child, Max installed FM equipment...
...first time since the advent of TV, restrained programing of the type exploited by Max Rothman is on the upswing all over the U.S. Thanks in large part to the nation's hi-fi hysteria, the air waves now support 537 FM stations (against 521 TV stations) for the estimated 13 million sets in use. In the past two months FCC has made 22 grants for new FM stations, and 47 more are under construction. Several, like WFLN in Philadelphia, WEAW in Evanston, Ill., have expanded to AM to make their outlets better-paying propositions. Biggest single FM boom...
...assortment of sacred cows by the two-man cast of a witty London revue. They warble their uncertain, Oxford-accented way through a series of wandering digressions on the London bus system (A Transport of Delight), the morals of the clubman (Madeira, M'Dear?), the woes of the hi-fi fan ("What do you get? Flutter on your bottom"). They do their best work, Flanders howls, in a snug little house in "an amusing mews," where...
...Necessities. With more money to spend (personal income rose to $343 billion v. $326.9 billion in '56), the U.S. spent more of it ($280 billion) than ever before on a shopping list of modern-day necessities that included 6,400,000 TV sets, 4,000,000 phonographs and hi-fi sets, 5,308,000 automatic washing machines, dryers and ironers and a big budget for fun. Example: nine years ago Detroit Auto Dealer Everett Kircher raised $100,000 to install a ski lift on Boyne Mountain in Michigan. Today Boyne Mountain has a heated swimming pool, private golf course...