Word: record
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...recording its great merit is that it keeps perfect balance; most choral records sound as if there were twenty sopranos for every bass. However, the transfer from tape to disk was sloppily done. The review copy had serious pre-echo, intemittent hiss, and a series of clicks which sounded like liconic castanets. Furthermore, neither record has any lead-in grooves; so that the first moments of each side are lost unless the needle is put on with a loving and very steady hand...
...surpassing merit of the record is the balance of the selections between the familiar and the obscure. Adeste Fidelis is included, but so is a very simple and fine carol by one John Billings, called A Virgin Unspotted. The unhackneyed pieces, together with the unhackneyed approach, remove the record from the realm of Christmas tree baubles and Muzak in Filene's basement...
...talk to Vice Chief of Staff Curtis LeMay, Contributing Editor Peter Bird Martin flew from New York to Buenos Aires, asked to fly home with LeMay aboard his record-setting KC-135 jet tanker. LeMay agreed to take him only if wind and temperature would permit his heavily loaded jet to leave Ezeiza Airport's short runway safely with Martin's extra weight (187 Ibs.) aboard. He ordered Martin to report back to the plane at 5:30 next morning. In a cool dawn, Martin discovered conditions were favorable, climbed aboard, was able to radio TIME...
...This was a puzzling assignment that White still does not quite understand, but he made the most of it. He became proficient at Mandarin, even compiled a Chinese-English dictionary of military terms; he also got to know some White Russian refugees and studied Russian. Duly noted in his record, this helped get him assigned, at the age of 32, as assistant military attache at the U.S. embassy at Moscow...
...Ibis had departed from his perch atop the Lampoon building last summer, and persuaded the Owl to flee the Record two weeks ago. "We're nobody's birds-in-the hand," the tall bird muttered...