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...chewing his favorite cherry pastilles. Titian-haired Soprano Nelli was all set for her first solo, Ritorna Vincitor!, from Aïda. The maestro conducted vigorously. Whispered a technician in the control booth: "What a man! Look at that beat." With the run-through and actual recording completed, the playback started. Toscanini listened intently, poring over the score, at times reconducting the music. In his high-collared rehearsal jacket, he looked like a priest. Then suddenly, the fireworks began. Wrathfully, he turned to Soprano Nelli, scolding and pointing at his score. She had, Toscanini argued, sung a B instead...
...richer-quick schemes, Bugsy's bomb, "when the test came . . . merely went off 'pouf.' " At one of Dorothy's Hollywood parties, Elsa and Dorothy hung a Dictaphone near Actor John Barrymore when he was upbraiding his protégée, Elaine Barrie. The playback proved "more censorable than any sequence from a Jane Russell or Anna Magnani movie." The only time Elsa and the countess ever fought came when Elsa invited Noel Coward, whom Dorothy disliked, to a party and later "we both flew at each other like wildcats." But the countess will always...
...record-playback control" developed by General Electric, which promises to cut much of the time required for fine machining. The control works something like a home recorder. A skilled operator records all the machine motions required for a machining process on a tape that is hooked up to the machine. When the tape is played back, the machine faithfully repeats the original motions down to the last detail. The first such unit will go to the Giddings & Lewis Machine Tool Co. at Fond du Lac, Wis., where it will be used to turn out self-reinforced skins for jet planes...
...word Soviet note was taken up with needling Eisenhower for failing to call for "unconditional banning of atomic and hydrogen weapons, as well as other types of weapons of mass destruction." Why not, said the note, devote all atomic material to peaceful purposes? This was a skillful playback of a seven-year-old Soviet propaganda line on which U.N. atomic conferences have always foundered. The line has clamored for an immediate outlawing of atomic bombs (the West's prime lever against vast Soviet armies), while the Russians have fought any effort to set up a system of inspection which...
Robot Announcer. California's radio station KEAR at San Mateo plans to go on the air this week without an announcer from 6 p.m. to midnight. Instead, KEAR will use a new long-playing tape playback device developed by Ampex Electric Corp. of Redwood City, Calif. Spot announcements and commercials are recorded on one tape, music on another; the announcements are cut in automatically, thus permitting KEAR to operate with only an engineer on duty. Cost of two tape and recording units: approximately...