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...Panel of acoustical experts called in. Beranek feels slighted. Gaps between 500-lb. clouds are partially patched up with strips of black plywood. Slabs of plywood and plaster are mounted behind sides of stage. Balconies are reshaped. Lead curtain is hung behind blue-and-gold mesh screen at rear of stage. Sound-dampening Fiberglas is spread across rear wall. Total cost: $500,000. Bell Telephone Laboratories sends man to evaluate hall's sound with new space-age computer. Machine says major problems-lack of bass, uneven distribution of sound, fluttery echoes-are largely corrected. Critics say machine has flipped...
...founder and onetime chairman (1950-54) of Britain's vast De Havilland Aircraft Co., an ex-mechanic who helped Sir Geoffrey de Havilland build his first biplane in 1908, later masterminded D.H.'s massive World War II output, including 7,781 Mosquitoes, the famed twin-engined plywood bombers that could hit 404 m.p.h.; of a ruptured aorta; in Hertfordshire, England...
Brothers on a Plank. Samsonite still bears the image of Biblicist Jesse Shwayder, who founded it in 1910 with $3,500. He brought his four brothers into the firm, introduced plywood-frame luggage and emphasized its strength with advertising that pictured the five Shwayder brothers standing on a plank supported only by a piece of their luggage. Shwayder retired in 1962, turned over control of the family-owned corporation to his son King David Shwayder and two able sons-in-law. Now 83, he still calls to offer them ideas...
...hundred strong and packing 25 tons of scenery, Britain's Royal Ballet moved into Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House last week to begin its long-awaited three-month tour of the U.S. For the occasion a new 56-ft. by 46-ft. stage of pliant plywood was constructed over the Met's pitted and creaking timbers. On opening night virtually every square foot of the new stage was covered with dancers as the company unveiled Choreographer Kenneth MacMillan's lavish new version of Romeo and Juliet. For many in the celebrity-studded audience, headed by Vice...
Gene C. Brewer, president, U.S. Plywood Corp...