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...Hardman, Peck Co., which makes most of today's new player pianos, no longer turns out electrically driven concert grands or giant uprights (people refuse to give them house space though their tone is beyond compare). They feature player spinets with foot pedals only, feel that pumping out the music is a genuine part of the nostalgia that is their stock in trade. Says one foot-pumping purist: "It gives you a sort of feeling of satisfaction .. . like natural childbirth...
...Pianola," once a trademark of the Aeolian Co.. long ago became a generic term for all player pianos, has been revived again recently by Hardman, Peck...
...beef between two pieces of bread) because he once refused to leave the gaming table for a more conventional repast, recipient in 1956 of the National Pickle Packers Association's annual "Pickle Award" in gratitude for the sandwich's assistance in helping the pickle packers peddle a peck of pickles; in Huntingdon, England...
...Hollywood did not have Gregory Peck, it would be madness to think of converting this novel into a movie. Alistair MacLean's heroes are not only larger than life-they are a sort of flea's-eye view of the Colossus at Rhodes. An earlier book that MacLean sold to the movies was The Guns of Navarone...
...every moviegoer knows, Gregory Peck and David Niven blew up the guns of Navarone, and Alec Guinness destroyed the bridge on the Kwai. But in this picture, the late Jeff Chandler effaces himself so deftly that his star billing fades, and what is left is a memorable portrait of the late General Frank Merrill, carefully sketched from his long-stemmed apple-bowl pipe all the way in to the heart that survived a thrombosis during the campaign and the spirit that was beyond the reach of disease or the enemy...