Word: hi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...indiscriminate listener with brass ears, plenty of time on his hands and a normal yen for sleep, could sit down ber fore his hi-fi set and work through the whole literature of LP-recorded sound (as far as generally available in the U.S.) in roughly 3½ years. To keep him up to date, he would want a 204-page catalog published monthly by William Schwann of Boston. In the ten years since LPs started flooding the market, the Schwann Long Playing Record Catalog has become a fascinating indication of music consumption in the vinyl era. Last week...
...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...
...pick up meat with his left hand. He was using that hand to print simple messages-his name and address, the word "mother" ("stepfather" was too much for him) and a comment on the hospital: "Here it is nice." His spoken vocabulary was limited to "Yes," "No," "Hi Mom" and "Thanks," but the speech therapist was confident that it would soon grow...