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Commercial Control. A gadget to protect radio listeners from commercials was put on sale by Los Angeles' Gray Development Corp. The gadget plugs in at the radio's electric outlet and has a ten-foot cord leading to two pushbuttons. When the armchair listener hears a singing commercial which he would rather avoid, he presses button No. 1; the radio is cut off for 15 seconds. For a straight spiel, he pushes button No. 2, silencing the radio for 60 seconds. (The time interval can be adjusted.) Sales the first week: 1,000. Price...
Advocate editors quickly emptied their beer mugs this weekend, searched hurriedly for the nearest water outlet, and proceeded to beat the Cambridge Fire Department to the punch as they doused an incipient blaze glowering below on a Gold Coast Valeteria awning. Fifty onlookers applauded as the professional firecaters shifted into reverse and drove quietly away...
...Zealand's Sir Carl August Berendsen last week was sitting under a cold air outlet from the air-conditioning system of the huge Lake Success committee room. Finally he rose to a point of temperature...
...Arthur," says a man who knows him well, "has spent millions for his movie business just to get an emotional outlet." Arthur himself has defined that emotion: "I want nothing of this for myself. . . . I am doing this work for my God and for my country." No one who has seen artless Arthur struggle to assemble these words, like a man worrying boulders to a wall, can doubt that he means them...
Admittedly, Allen, with the help of guests, has risen to the heights of humor on occasions. Few things in radio have been better done than, for example, the Gilbert & Sullivan parody of last year with Leo Durocher. It is here that Allen's genius finds its best outlet-that is as a writer, and perhaps a director, rather than as a grater-voiced, not-so-funny funnyman...