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...married to celebrate"). Before his first year on TV was out, hard-drinking Don had missed more than 30 telecasts, but no one seemed to care. He latched onto two shows, Where's Sherwood? and Why Sherwood?, hit the West like a sonic boom...
...Returning to civilization sporting a handsome beard (TIME. July 15). Steeves. 23, was taken in tow by Air Force pressagents, sat for newspaper interviews, repeatedly told his dramatic survival story on TV. and finally got a $10.000 offer for his story from the Saturday Evening Post. Last week the sonic boom cracked around Dave Steeves's ears; the Satevepost announced that it was canceling its contract, and Steeves's wife Rita announced that she was considering a divorce...
...longer would they have to throttle back for their pass above the Will Rogers pylon. They could let down as fast as they wanted to - provided that they stayed above 5,000 ft. so that the shattering racket of a "sonic boom" would not un nerve spectators or jostle instruments...
Observers who believe today's search for new musical sounds is neurotic may be right, but the search continues with the frenzy of a uranium hunt. Westminster, a member of the recording elite, takes a flyer into sonic oddities with Soundproof, a collection of popular tunes played on doctored pianos by Louis Teicher and Arthur Ferrante...
...first hearing, the Seventh is not a work to seize its listeners by the ears or by viscera either. Instead, it sounds neat, trim and attractive, with an overall flavor bland enough to permit the savoring of delicate, sonic side dishes. The first movement is sunny and almost muscular, the slow movement an exurbanite pastoral, whose plaintive tune (in solo strings and winds) is accompanied by brassy grunts and then by vague and charming counter-tunes. This movement also contains an enigmatic episode: a sudden passage of smashing violence, gone as suddenly as it came. The finale is in jocose...