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Bounding up Capitol Hill last week with the handshake and "hi ya" enthusiasm of schoolboys beginning a new term, members of that exclusive academy, the U.S. Senate, made a disconcerting discovery. In a body whose love for headlines is exceeded only by its awe of seniority, the new boy from Ohio was focusing attention on himself. Not only were gallery eyes during opening session fixed on stonefaced, wavy-haired Frank Lausche, but the Senate's majority and minority leaders both had to reckon with his presence...
...neurosis has been discovered: audiophilia, or the excessive passion for hi-fi sound and equipment. The discoverer: Dr. Henry Angus Bowes, clinical director in psychiatry at Ste. Anne's Hospital for veterans at Ste. Anne de Bellevue, Que., himself an audio fan. Tweet by tweet and woof by woof, at a research meeting of the American Psychiatric Association, Psychiatrist Bowes spelled out how audiophiliacs behave...
...process worked out by LIFE Magazine. Color transparencies of the masterworks were blown up on strips of 40-in.-wide film to the exact dimensions of the originals, and framed by light boxes containing fluorescent tubes. The brighter-than-life effect was like listening to symphonic music on a hi-fi recording. It was an exciting, highlit visual experience...
Helena: It is badly broke and will be hard work so would you like to have a hi-ball...
Literary Rock Pile. Upon joining the colony each neophyte gets a copy of From Here to Eternity and a good look at Jones's sumptuous house on the western edge of town at the end of Beech Street. The house is complete with hi-fi set, high-powered hunting rifles, 3,500 books, pushbutton kitchen and Hollywood-style bathroom (with a French-style bidet...