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...Rock Creek Park, the police cavalry, worried lest its horses should react violently to the roar of the parade and crowds, spent hours conditioning the mounts by feeding them heavy doses of Spike Jones recordings over loudspeakers. As a result, by Inauguration Day the horses were immune to noise, but the cops were nervous wrecks. Parade officials put on a small-scale dry run down Pennsylvania Avenue, pronounced everything satisfactory. They arranged for a helicopter to hover over the parade and radio traffic information to an Army-run command post. There, in a van off Pennsylvania Avenue, a control center...
Since most users agree that the stuff is vile-tasting ("It's glubby," said a Dallas dieter, "absolutely nauseating"), many mix it with gin, rum or bourbon. Some freeze it and eat it like sherbet. A Washington lovelorn columnist advised the wife of an alcoholic to spike her husband's gin with Metrecal. One happy user of a similar supplement is Dallas' Specialty Store (Nieman-Marcus) Tycoon Stanley Marcus. "I've lost 15 pounds," says he, "several times." Marcus' specialty is "a kind of Spanish gazpacho soup." He mixes the dieting powder with cucumbers, tomato...
Percussive Vaudeville (Harry Breuer and Orchestra; Audio Fidelity). A sentimental treatment of Gay Nineties songs is mixed with Spike Jonesian horn and whistle exclamations. The "separation of sound" here is greater than that between the far ends of a vaudeville pit. and the effect, while startling, ultimately cancels out the melody...
...Spike Jones Show (CBS, 9:30-10 p.m.). The City Slicker with Mrs. Jones (Singer Helen Grayco...
...record clearly pitched to the neophyte stereo addict. For the most part, the fun is more in the studio than in the speaker, but in some of the more fanciful numbers -Make Love to Me, High Society-the band crackles with a kind of auditory wit that suggests Spike Jones gone highbrow...