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Home from the heavens, Major Yuri Gagarin was the toast of Russia. Simferopol in the Crimea threw up a hastily sculpted plaster bust of Yuri. Moscow planned a 287-ft. commemorative obelisk. Yuri's voice in space on an LP record with commentary in six languages was being readied for world sale. Yuri's image blossomed on everything from postcards to pottery. The grateful Soviet government outdid itself: it bestowed on the first spaceman and his household of six a new, four-room apartment...
...million) with roughly 10,000 borrowed dollars. In seven years, he has shot past Esquire (Playboy's circulation is 1,100,000, Esquire's 859,000). Hefner's enterprises now push sterling silver Playboy cufflinks with bunnies on them, Playboy party kits, three Playboy-produced jazz LP albums, a weekly syndicated television show, and a new Playboy Travel Service, set up to run coeducational tours abroad that "will include all those things that the hip guy wants to see: bullfights, sports-car rallies-but no bunnies." Somehow, it has occurred to Hefner that he is the Tony...
...week run at the Copa, Bobby Darin exemplifies the shallowing reservoir of young U.S. pop singing talent-an immodest boy with modest ability, whose fan club has just a little more to crow about than the followers of Frankie Avalon or the Fabian societies. Yet Darin has made six LP albums that have sold more than 1,500,000 copies. His trademark single recordéa driving version of Kurt Weill's Mack the Knife-has sold more than 2,000,000 copies. He has all the bookings he can handle in America's major nightclub principalities from...
Nevertheless, Borgward's freewheeling inventiveness often captured the public fancy. One of his earliest successes was a 1924 three-wheel truck, still widely copied. In the postwar years, Borgward put out the bestselling LP-300 Minicar, catching the bugmobile craze on the rise. If Borgward had concentrated on tiny cars, he might easily have dominated the mini-car market. But after he had sold 350,000 of them, he grew bored, moved on to expand his bigger cars-and failure...
Since stereo came along, the record industry has been haunted by the bogey of unplanned obsolescence: recordings that were big during the LP decade are now as dated as an automobile with fins. This week RCA Victor started to fight back by announcing the release of ''pseudo stereo"-or, as the record liners prudently euphemize, monophonic recordings with "electronic stereo reprocessing." RCA's first releases: Respighi's Fountains of Rome and Pines of Rome, Moussorgsky-Ravel's Pictures at an Exhibition, Dvorak's Symphony "From the New World", all conducted by Arturo Toscanini...