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Rossini: Overtures (NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini conducting; Victor, 8 sides). Italy's great kettledrum-banging composer is heard with appropriate thunder on unbreakable plastic records, which catch the crescendos without the mushiness of ordinary records. Best is Toscanini's job on La Gazza Ladra (The Thieving Magpie). Also in Victor's second plastic album are the overtures to The Barber of Seville, La Cenerentola (Cinderella) and Il Signor Bruschino. Performance : excellent...
...Stole just about everything portable, including fire-hose nozzles. ¶Hacked off metal and plastic name plates identifying equipment. ¶Tried to pry up the metal plaque on the veranda deck marking the spot where the Japs' surrender was signed. ¶Scribbled "compositions" and scratched their initials on newly painted bulkheads. ¶Scarred the hard enamel of the 16-in. guns so badly that the muzzles had to be raised out of reach. ¶Set off the general alarm, which sent the cursing crew dashing to battle stations...
...full-page ads, Gimbel's modestly hailed it as the "fantastic, atomic era, miraculous pen." It had a tiny ball bearing instead of a point, was guaranteed to need refilling only once every two years, would write under water (handy for mermaids), on paper, cloth, plastic or blotters...
...Detroit's beanstalking Sav-way Co. (TIME, March 27, 1944). Vogue recordings will be chiefly of popular music and will be sold in such outlets as drugstores and motion-picture lobbies. As a sales tickler, Vogue records will have pictures of singers under the surface of the transparent plastic. Price: between 50? and 75? apiece...
...even unbreakable plastic may soon find itself dated. Reason: recording on magnetized wire, used extensively during the war, has now been developed to a point where it is commercially practical. A wire recording and playback machine which will sell for $300 will be put on the market by the Utah Radio Products Co. of Chicago by Dec. 1. The spool of wire is long enough (11,200 ft.) to play for 60 minutes. It will play the same recording an indefinite number of times, or the recording can be "erased" after one playing and another made. Handiest feature: a clock...