Word: shellacing
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...Institute of Recorded Sound Ltd. has just announced it will issue exact copies of some of the choicest antiques under the His Masters Voice label; they will press directly from the original master records and will bow to modernity only by using vinyl instead of the oldfashioned, noisy-surfaced shellac. The idea has more than mere nostalgia to recommend it. Most LP transfers of 78 material change and degrade the original sound. But the new old 78s will have both unfiltered high frequencies and unrumbled lows. Hardly comparable to the sound of the LP era, they nevertheless restore a forgotten...
...unmistakably Roy's though also a cliched epitome of Manhattan East Side sybarite splendor. Up the spiral staircase one encounters what can only be described as a trophy room. The walls are covered with walnut plaques, shield-shaped generally, though some are rectangular, with gold plates, the gold shellac now peeling away to show the brass underneath, bearing laudatory appreciations from the American Legion, The Veterans of Foreign Wars, and even the Rumsey, New Jersey Boys' High School: " To Roy M. Cohn, outstanding patriotic American, brilliant young attorney, fearless crusader, and defender of the faith against Godless Communism...
Other popular fakes are tradesmen's signs and old dolls, toys and jelly molds. Most of the forgeries are made in the U.S., where signs and wooden artifacts are aged half a dozen decades in about as many hours by the time-honored application of shellac and sizing, metal leaf and umber, topped off with a few wormholes supplied by an electric drill and a sound thrashing with a heavy iron chain...
...This is the strongest, most experienced team I have ever had," said Russian Coach Gavriil Korobkov, as he marched his athletes into Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. Two days later, the strongest, most experienced flew home again-suffering from an acute dose of shellac. The U.S. men, who barely edged the Russians in 1963, trampled them this time by 139 to 97, winning 16 of 22 events, sweeping an incredible first and second in ten events, and capturing all twelve running races. The U.S. girls, who have always been blitzed by the Russians, won four of ten events, were actually leading...
Arturo Toscanini's LP recording of the Beethoven Ninth Symphony has sold 600,000, but the only real rivals to Cliburn-Tchaikovsky are preserved on old-fashioned shellac. Among the million-selling 78s: Jalousie, performed by Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops Orchestra, Pianist Jose Iturbi in Chopin's Polonaise in A-flat and Debussy's Clair de Lune, Leopold Stokowski's recording of Tales from the Vienna Woods...