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...Mary Ford, while Les Paul furiously strummed what sounded like a million electric guitars. From 1948 to 1953, their "new sound" sold millions of hit recordings such as Tennessee Waltz and Mockin'bird Hill. While rock 'n' roll eventually knocked them off the top of the platter heap, the electronically blended couple remained a TV and nightclub attraction. But alas, after 14 years of marriage, there was no mu-u-u-sic somewhere. Mary is now suing for separate maintenance on the ground of mental cruelty...
McCracken first tapped the market twelve years ago, more or less by accident. A divinity student and radio sports announcer, he recorded a platter entitled The Game of Life-a hectic play-by-play account of a football game, with Jesus coaching the Christian team and Satan sending in plays to the Forces of Evil. Originally meant only for use by a Texas church group. Game proved to be such a galloping commercial success that McCracken decided to go into the business for good...
Wispy & Whispery. All the hustle and hubbub was about an LP platter called The First Family, starring a young (26) comic named Vaughn Meader, who does a frequently riotous impersonation of Jack Kennedy. Meader's intonation, rhythm and broad Bostonian accent are good enough to fool any Jacqueline. The series of skits that comprise the record also include a wonderfully wispy, whispery impersonation of Jackie herself, played by Naomi Brossart. Most of it is not wit but gags, and the gags are not all top-drawer, though they are greeted as such by one of those irritating studio audiences...
...meal of sukiyaki contains more meat than the average Japanese eats in a year. Yet this delicious combination of sliced beef and vegetables is immensely popular in Japan today and is unquestionably the most famous Japanese food. The Rashomon serves it as it is served in Japan: a large platter of attractively arranged slices of raw beef and various vegetables is brought to the table with an electric skillet in which the ingredients are cooked. Patrons are even invited to manage the operation themselves, and a sukiyaki dinner can thus be much fun for several persons...
When television put the big whammy on radio, most radio stations took to rock 'n' roll and platter chatter to survive. Not Manhattan's WOR, which was 40 years old last week. Now more prosperous than ever, WOR has a simple and astonishing formula. On the air for 24 hours every day, it devotes 20 hours and 30 minutes of that time to talk. Some good, some bad, some indifferent. But talk...