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...music's obscure middlemen-or more accurately, muddlemen: he is a copyist whose job it is to decipher the scribblings of composers. He works in a dingy cubbyhole on Manhattan's upper West Side, surrounded by towering stacks of music and a massive duplicating machine named Ozalid. Together they make a unique team: Arnie singing an aria from La Bohème while bent over a new score, Ozalid humming contentedly and smelling of ammonia. Yet despite the humble trappings, for the past 25 years Arnstein's office has been the musical clearinghouse for practically every major...
Last week, for example, Arnie and Ozalid were readying Marvin David Levy's Mourning Becomes Electra for its world première at the Metropolitan Opera in March, as well as Laurence Rosenthal's new musical, Sherry, for its opening in Boston in two weeks. More than just a copy cat, Arnstein not only translates Stravinsky's fuzzy pencilings and Virgil Thomson's smudges into readable music, but also extracts and copies the music for each instrument, calculates the appropriate rests so that a player can turn the page without getting tangled in his instrument...
...raised its assets to about $300 million. Sales for 1964's first nine months were $143.6 million, up $11.4 million over last year, and earnings rose to $7.9 million. GAF has 12 plants scattered from Binghamton, N.Y., to LaHabra, Calif., makes a range of 3,000 products, including Ozalid dry printing machines and the film and camera with which the astronauts took color photographs of space. It also produces synthetic detergents and is the only U.S. company making high pressure acetylene derivatives that do everything from taking the sting out of iodine to the cloud out of beer...
They also made Aniline's wheels go round. Already harried by Government prying, Aniline protested that now its actual operations would be hampered. Those operations include much vital war work: 90% of the khaki dye for U.S. uniforms, Agfa Ansco films for Army & Navy, Ozalid blueprint paper & apparatus for many a defense plant...
...going by second-string men. Anyway, the Treasury would rather wreck the company than take further chances. Some things made Treasury's hair curl: movies of secret tests of new, experimental U.S. tanks at Aberdeen, Md. were developed by three German aliens employed in the Agfa Ansco plant; Ozalid division employes, many of them German-born, thoroughly inspected defense plants before installing blueprint processes, frequently went back to service the equipment. If no accidents or sabotage had occurred, it was not from lack of opportunity. Nor were last week's firings likely to be the last...