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...Inside, 500 paintings cover the walls and even part of the ceiling, which supine browsers can study from a large couch. The gallery, named the ARxerie, is dedicated to the uncontestable principle that every American home ought to have a real painting in that empty-looking place over the stereo set. Those who drive in are assured of finding art in every style, subject, size, color and medium, mostly bought up by the batch in Europe. Works are priced from $4 to $2,000-including frame...
...piano rolls, Vorsetzer's sensitive fingers produced all the notes with ghostly perfection, just as the turn-of-the-century masters had played them 50 years be fore. But this time, tape recorders took in every appoggiatura so that the antique treasures could be preserved in high-quality stereo recordings...
Those recordings are every bit as good as they might have been had the masters themselves been around to play for the stereo age. They are hi-fi's first completely successful encounter with a golden age of the piano, and they come with towering endorsements from the old masters (praising the piano rolls) and from such acute modern listeners as Glenn Gould, George Szell and Leopold Stokowski (praising the records...
...sell his albums by mail order-twelve LPs a year in editions of 5,000 priced at an unvarying $12.50 each. For openers, three LPs in a handsome package will be offered to Book-of-the-Month Club members this week at $17.95 for monaural and $19.95 for stereo...
...finally seems to have out-pitched his own luck. The Dodgers are paying him $30,000. He owns a bulging stock portfolio, part of an FM radio station and a motel. His $30,000 San Fernando Valley home is equipped with a well-stocked library (Aldous Huxley, Thomas Wolfe), stereo cabinet (Prokofiev, Tchaikovsky) and bar. Bachelor Koufax tools around Hollywood in a shiny gold Oldsmobile convertible with an assortment of beauties at his side, picks up extra change by appearing on-stage in nightclubs, and playing bit roles...