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...business. Today's male vocal groups generally sport teen-age beanies, turtleneck sweaters and cloyingly cute names: the Four Aces, Four Freshmen, Hilltoppers, Platters, Pied Pipers, Crew-Cuts. The most refreshing recruits to this fraternity are four sober-suited young men who call themselves-no less cutely-the Hi-Lo's, but make a specialty of kidding the beanies off their brothers...
Last week the Hi-Lo's brought their far-from-tattered voices to Manhattan for the first time, and proved to the jazz-wise Birdland audience that when they are not kidding, they can husk out just about the slickest sound in the current trade. "We like to sing," says Hi-Lo's Leader Gene Puerling, "almost like a string quartet...
...General Motors' new Technical Center near Detroit, where 4,500 employees eat in an air-conditioned glass and stainless-steel world designed by Architect Eero Saarinen. San Francisco's Bank of America and Western Electric Co.'s Cleveland plant have lounges with TV or hi-fi sets and card tables for after-lunch relaxation; St. Louis' McDonnell Aircraft even imports baseball players, singers and theater stars to entertain...
Honky-Tonk in Hi-Fi (Westminster). For the nostalgic or the audiophiles who collect memories or sounds as far out as the nickelodeon. The wheezing specimens at the Musical Museum at Deansboro, N.Y. rattle and plunk out antiques such as Waiting for the Robert E. Lee and The Sheik of Araby...
...Only Love as he is on a stomping, heavily chorded Bess, You Is My Woman Now. Early in the morning, when he is running through witty variations of old standbys. he has the small room howling requests. Pianist Coleman has his own theory about the popularity of music rooms: hi-fi has prepared people for good jazz and piano playing. "It's happening all over the city and all over the country, even in places where they've barely learned the progressive beat." he says. "They can scarcely put the pianos in fast enough...