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...Schwann's LP catalogue listed 489 classical titles offered by eleven recording companies. Today there are some 14,000 classical titles available from 118 companies, which are spinning out 300 or more new releases each month. In the avalanche, touched off in part by the boom of stereo, close to 6,000 classical LPs have been discontinued and swept into oblivion in the past four years...
...Sales were brisk, so London reissued ten operas, including Renata Tebaldi in La Boheme and Madama Butterfly. Mercury followed London's lead, establishing its Wing label, featuring such surefire favorites as suites from Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty, Nutcracker and Swan Lake ($1.98 for mono, $2.98 for stereo), ably rendered by Antal Dorati and the Minneapolis Symphony...
Since then, Capitol, Victor and Vanguard have charged into the market. Capitol dubbed its revivals Paperback Classics ($1.98 for mono, $2.98 for stereo). Among the highlights are a rousing Brahms First Symphony with William Steinberg conducting the Pittsburgh Symphony, and a brace of Beethoven piano sonatas, the "Appassionato" and "Waldstein," masterfully played by Pianists John Browning and Rudolf Firkusny respectively...
...Paul Kenneth Hansma of Scottsdale, Ariz., "just seemed to drift into science," has built everything from a cloud chamber to a solar furnace to an electron accelerator. For a hobby he builds fountains, is now on his ninth. He studies with stereo earphones whispering light classical music to him. He will attend New College in Sarasota, Fla., move on to postgraduate research in physics. > Jacquelyn Faye Evans of Little Rock, Ark., made her achievements (straight A's) amid notably tense circumstances as one of the few Negro students to enter and stay at Little Rock's Hall High...
President Johnson told a January news conference that he had received a $588 stereo as a personal gift from Baker. However, Don Reynolds, owner of a Silver Spring, Md., insurance agency in which Baker occasionally shared the profits, insisted before the committee that he was the donor. Reynolds said that the gift had been suggested by Baker as an appropriate gesture on Reynolds' part for writing a $100,000 policy on Johnson's life...