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Some sound new investments for the classical music lover have appeared on the market recently. Columbia and London have added low-priced labels-Odyssey and Stereo Treasury-that offer top quality but somewhat older recordings for about $2.50 a record. Capitol has more exciting news. It has succeeded in signing a contract for all Soviet artists and orchestras, and has rushed its technicians to Russia lest any foreign sounds creep in. The label is Melodiya-Angel, and the first issues are excellent...
BRAHMS: THE FOUR SYMPHONIES (4 LPs; Stereo Treasury). There are few better buys than this album. Rafael Kubelik leads the Vienna Philharmonic in a performance that is full of virtues: lustrous, well-balanced orchestral sound, particularly expansive winds, spirited pace. Kubelik's Brahms is never ponderous, nor does he go for the floods and eddies of sound that mar the more Wagnerian interpretations...
...slacks and cardigan sweater; she, sleek in blonde hair and black dress. Simultaneously, a full-sized movie screen begins a silent descent down a side wall. Playboy Editor-Publisher Hugh Marston Hefner, 40, sinks into a love seat that has been saved for him beside the 15-ft.-long stereo console. His girl friend, Playboy Cover Girl Mary Warren, 23, slips alongside him, puts her head on his shoulder. A butler brings a bowl of hot buttered popcorn and bottles of Pepsi; the lights dim; the movie begins. Last week it was Michelangelo Antonioni's Blow-Up, the week before...
...amusing and bawdy cartoons, some dirty jokes, and discussions by sociologists and theologians. Above all, in vivid color and enthusiastic text, the ultimate life of material and sensual pleasure is abundantly demonstrated for some imaginary man about town. Latest male fashions are on display; so are sleek cars, sumptuous stereo sets and fine wines and foods, with instruction on when, how and to whom to serve them. There is always the suggestion that sex is part of the successful life, that good-looking women are status symbols. Says Paul Gebhard, executive director of Indiana University's Kinsey-founded Institute...
Although damage from smoke was extensive, James G. Niven '67, Darby's roommate, said that only a stereo speaker, a sofa, and a chair appeared to be irreparably damaged...