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What Marconi Wrought Last November station KFDA's Art Holt of Amarillo, Texas set a world's nonstop endurance record for disk jockeys: six days and six nights. Last week Disk Jockey Ray Briem, 26, of Salt Lake City's KLUB, putting on LPs for trips to the bathroom and catnaps, spun, gabbed and wheezed his way to a new record: six days, six nights and six hours...
...home town of Athens. To landscape the 2,000-acre site, he has planted 10,000 pine seedlings and 10,000 strawberry plants. Says a friend: "Murchison does almost everything by ten thousands." But when the new Athenians really want to enjoy themselves, they make for the Koon Kreek Klub, an exclusive (i.e., mostly millionaires) tract of wilderness near Athens. There, Murchison, Richardson and such other Athenians as Oilman Ike La Rue and Lease Broker George Greer loaf around simple cabins in sports shirts or old clothes, play gin rummy for 1? a point, kid each other about their waistlines...
...announcement for Der Klub was made by its chairman, Duke Karl Eduard of Saxe-Coburg-and-Gotha. "Through this symbolic action," he declared, "the National German Automobile Club gives expression to the fact that our work is ruled by the spirit of the House of Hohenzollern. The knowledge that our Club would set an example to others inspired me to ask His Majesty in lonely Doom to become our Protector...
...train moving from Manhattan toward Philadelphia some two hundred members of the Seven o'Clockers' Klub convened for their third annual banquet. The Klub is composed of Philadelphians who spend four hours every day commuting to and from work in Manhattan. Feature of the banquet was a new Klub song...
...Marines Have Landed" entertainingly relates the customary escapades of Jack, or in this case Captain Jinks, ashore. A grimly sentimental story, "Kupid's Konfidential Klub," tells about the death of awkward little Soldier Kemper whose speedy achievement of a great desire to be successful in the Army was interrupted when he stood in front of a machine gun. "A Razor Strop" is an embittered sketch of a soldier whose trivial theft leads him to a profitless disaster. Other stories about captains and colonels and knights-at-arms gain their effect from staccato characterization, a style made pungent by army...