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...week's end the small change was jingling into the till so fast, Telemeter-man Fitzgibbons figures that, with 3,000 installations already guaranteed, he needs only another 4,000 sets in Etobicoke to break even, hopes eventually to snare most of Toronto's 356,000 TV receivers for Telemeter. If Telemeter scores a Canadian success, Paramount may then take another crack at the U.S. market and its estimated 50 million TV sets...
...fish inspires such zeal or exacts such sacrifice from its pursuers as the huchen of the Alps. He who would snare a huchen (pronounced Aooken) must fight his way to riverbanks through drifts of snow, shiver for hours in near-zero weather temperatures, often squinting at his line through a needling spray of sleet. For only in winter's nadir does Europe's mightiest game fish begin to strike as it gets ready to spawn in the spring. And only when the weather is abominable-visibility poor, the river lashed by storm-will the wary huchen flash...
...hooked. He is bitter about U.S. treatment of addicts, which he believes to be medievally retarded, and attributes his cure to that hallowed remedy, the love of a good woman-his fourth and current wife, Margie Lou Swett, 26, a svelte and self-possessed singer who sometimes doubles on snare drums on his television show...
...acrid, violent, percussive work, the concerto utilizes eerie chord clusters and precisely graduated effects of drums and cymbals ("Hit the snare at the rim and move gradually in towards the center," says the score at one point) to produce sounds as weird as anything in the world of electronic music. The first movement in last week's performance built to a climax with express-train power. The quieter second movement gained its effect from the almost somnolent alternation of the piano's sinuous theme with the whisper of a drum, the rasp of a snare, the tinkle...
Adultery aside, some of their lordships were causing concern enough. The latest statistics show that society mothers launching their daughters would do far far better to snare for a son-in-law an ordinary bloke with a kind heart than the wearer of a coronet. While only one in 15 marriages between commoners breaks up in Britain, seven of 25 of Britain's nonroyal dukes have been to the divorce court, and three of these-Leinster, Leeds and Argyll-have been there more than once. Last week the Duke of Bedford, 42, was in the middle of divorce proceedings...