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...Necessities. With more money to spend (personal income rose to $343 billion v. $326.9 billion in '56), the U.S. spent more of it ($280 billion) than ever before on a shopping list of modern-day necessities that included 6,400,000 TV sets, 4,000,000 phonographs and hi-fi sets, 5,308,000 automatic washing machines, dryers and ironers and a big budget for fun. Example: nine years ago Detroit Auto Dealer Everett Kircher raised $100,000 to install a ski lift on Boyne Mountain in Michigan. Today Boyne Mountain has a heated swimming pool, private golf course...
...Hi-Fi & Movies. By oldtime standards, the camp was a plush resort. Air-dropped supplies floated down regularly. There was plenty of room for everyone in the huts, which were connected by undersnow tunnels. The men ran movies three times a week, exulted in the talents of their cook. About once a week they talked by radiotelephone to their families. Occasionally, some of them got tired of hearing certain hi-fi records, took to hiding them around the camp (one victim: twangy Ballad Singer-Guitarist Burl Ives). But the men balked only once-when a stateside psychologist sent down...
...Built-in Hi-Fi. Examining a woman patient this way in 1931, Dr. Penfield touched part of the left temporal lobe. She began to recall giving birth more than 20 years earlier. When the electrode was applied to the cut surface in the forward part of the temporal lobe during an operation on a 26-year-old secretary, she suddenly remarked: "I hear music." Minutes later, without her knowledge, the electrode was reapplied to the same spot. "I hear music again," she said. She hummed the tune in time with the orchestra that she heard. Later she wrote...
...tired of the ding-donging bells and the Christmas seals, of the Ice Show and the happy, bustling people. Santa can't even get slugged without someone getting arrested. We'll probably go back to our room on Christmas Eve, put an Elvis Presley Christmas Carol on the hi-fi set, and play it loud. Very loud...
...records a year (Columbia). Most significant shift in the wind: RCA Victor, after acting for three years as if chamber music did not exist, put out four chamber music releases last month (including the eighth current, and rather saccharine, LP version of "The Trout"). RCA's reasoning: hi-fi and good sense will gently lead listeners to the delicacies of chamber music...