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BERNARD S. WALLERSTEIN Newark...
...murder" because a heroic exit would let him die believing that he was a better man than his wife's lover, Hostage Lobkowitz. Hostage Preissinger, who wanted to save his skin, tried to pin the murder on Hostage Janoshik, stalwart member of the Underground movement. Dr. Wallerstein, psychoanalyst and Hostage No. 5, asked only that he be allowed to record the psychological behavior of his four doomed mates, so that his memory would live as the author of a unique case history...
Author Heym approves Dr. Wallerstein's findings: that all men are not heroes in the face of death. When Commissioner Reinhardt's scheme finally won out and the hostages were shot, only burly, talkative, astute Hostage Janoshik left a noble record-which bore fruit in the blowing up of three ammunition barges on the morning of the execution...
Swearing his Columbia colleagues to secrecy, Mr. Wallerstein planned his campaign as carefully as a Blitzkrieg. Last week, out of a clear sky, President Wallerstein made his dramatic announcement: that Columbia's entire classical list (old releases as well as new ones) was now on sale at half price. To profit by the change, Columbia plans to sell three times as many classical records as it had sold before. Wallerstein has readied his Bridgeport, Conn, plant for three times its normal production...
...price cut threw the rest of the record industry into the whoops & jingles. Victor, Columbia's towering competitor, went into a huddle to consider ways & means of countering Wallerstein's move...