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Riding the stereo boom with audio-manic items. Frey's firm has sold 4,200,000 records in the past four years, grossed $12 million. Customers for Frey's cacophony are children, camera fans who want authentic background sound for their home movies, and-most of all-the "pingpong trade," as diskmen call hi-fi buffs who delight in dramatizing stereo by playing such demonstration recordings as the sounds of a pingpong match. "Look," explains Frey. "A guy goes out and gets himself a Superduper Mark IV amplifier and what the mooch wants to listen to is something...
...There was no explanation as to how it had fallen into our hands," said Christiansen in his book. "Nor did I dare inquire." Nor was he surprised to learn later that the poem had been ghosted by a Fleet Street colleague. Throughout the war, the Express maintained a deliberately manic mood: THE FLEET'S HERE-it screamed in a banner headline in 1940, when a solitary British destroyer steamed up the Thames...
...volunteer who walks into E-3 will not see much violence, because the most violent patients are usually manic-depressive, and get excited only occasionally. I met one 20 year old girl with a quiet sense of humor, who offered me a limp hand in greeting. She seemed depressed. I was surprised when one of the volunteers told me that on his last visit to the ward she had been beating her head against the floor...
...called Early Soghdian. The first crisis is whether Calvert is to be elected a fellow of the college. In one of those vendettas of common room and high table that no one describes with more authoritative relish than C. P. Snow, Calvert squeaks through. But Roy is prey to manic-depressive demons, and he is tortured by his need "for the authority of God." Neither heavy drink nor light promiscuity can help him. For a time he flirts with Hitlerism, seeking the force that is lacking in effete British aristocrats who seem played out even beyond the demands of satire...
...federal court, Boston Industrialist Bernard Goldfine, 70, onetime largesse-dripping crony of ex-Presidential Aide Sherman Adams, was to have stood trial for dodging $791,745 in federal income taxes during 1952-57. But last week three court-appointed psychiatrists reported their unanimous diagnosis: Goldfine suffers from a manic-depressive psychosis, has strong suicidal tendencies. The court called off the trial, ordered Goldfine committed to a hospital for treatment. In a parallel case, onetime Federal