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...show-business volunteers on the satirical side of the campaign. The word is that Dean Martin has calmed the fears of Sammy Davis Jr. by telling him: "Don't worry, Sammy. If Goldwater wins, I'll buy you." And an outfit called Panic Productions has released an LP album called I'd Rather Be Far Right Than President, which imaginatively follows Goldwater to victory and into office, chronicling his first presidential moves, such as withdrawing recognition from Britain, India, Sweden, and Switzerland, kicking the man from the New York Times out of a press conference, warring...
...fact, these new records "for budget-conscious connoisseurs" are mostly freshly pressed reissues of classical standards cut before 1960. In a fiercely competitive market where the consumer is conditioned to demanding the newest rather than the best Beethoven Fifth, say, the life expectancy of many a first-rate classical LP has been growing shorter every year. Fifteen years ago, Schwann's LP catalogue listed 489 classical titles offered by eleven recording companies. Today there are some 14,000 classical titles available from 118 companies, which are spinning out 300 or more new releases each month. In the avalanche, touched...
Just the Answer. Victor, which hauled out its venerable old Victrola label to kick off its new line, offers a rich lode of glittering bargains ($2.50 for each mono LP, $3 for stereo). Among them: Puccini's Tosca with Soprano Zinka Milanov; Tchaikovsky's "Pathetique" with Pierre Monteux and the Boston Symphony; and Brahms's Concerto No. 2 with Russian Pianist Emil Gilels backed by Fritz Reiner and the Chicago Symphony. Vanguard Records' new line, Everyman, includes a fine performance of Haydn's Creation, conducted by Mogens Wo¨ldike...
...another few days of concerts around the state, the boys will strike out for a three-week tour of Japan-their first overseas venture since they came home from a six-week European tour in March. In the past 100 days, the Duke has given 25 concerts, made an LP, and taped four television shows, all while working on a new musical called Sugar City that is scheduled for Broadway this fall...
...jaguar safari in Sarapiqui is no sport for weak knees or weak stomachs. Not for Costa Ricans are the portable refrigerators, battery-operated LP phonographs and folding beds of the Kenya set. In Sarapiqui it is man; tent, sleeping bag and insect repellent against the elements. The. jungle is so thick, even on the-trails, that it sometimes takes a machete-wieldiag hunter 20 minutes to go 100 yds., Standard safari fare is beans and rice, plus what, ever the hunter shoots for the pot-boar steaks,, perhaps, or delicate morsels of tepez-cuintle, a 25-lb. creature that claims...