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LOCAL RADIO PUBLIC SERVICE: Highbrow KPFA-FM (TIME, Feb. 24) in Berkeley, Calif...
Audience Participation. In Chicago, as Busoni's Sonata No. 2 reached the last groove and began to swish round and round unattended, anxious listeners (to highbrow radio station WFMT) called the studio, got no answer, notified the police, who rushed to the studio, found Disk Jockey Omar Shapli, 27, bent over a desk, sound asleep...
...trial of Leopold and Loeb in 1924. In between, music poured forth steadily-much of it by string quartets and seldom-heard modern composers. There were no commercials. All in all, it was a typical week in the life of the radio station that has become the highbrow's delight...
Lush French Cinemactress Brigitte Bardot displays her charms so bountifully in And God Created Woman-a story of a woman indiscriminately seeking a bed-mate-that customers are packing into highbrow art theaters around the nation to give her some lowbrow ogling. But when Brigitte went on display in Philadelphia, she stopped the show. "Dirt for dirt's sake," cried District Attorney Victor H. "Blanc. Last week the D.A.'s office confiscated the film from two theaters and charged the owners with violating an anti-obscenity film provision in the state's criminal code...
...glass windows in pursuit of Tommy, has produced a rash of Tommy Steele autographs on teen-age backs and legs. It also sells Tommy Steele belts, blouses and underwear by the hundreds of thousands, and moves Bloomsbury parlor psychologists to long, long thoughts. Wrote Novelist Colin Maclnnes in the highbrow monthly Encounter: "The most striking feature of Tommy's performance is that it is both animally sensual and innocent, pure. He is Pan, he is Puck ... he is every mother's cherished adolescent...