Records: Hear All About It

On the shelves of U.S. record stores, supermarkets and drug stores, there is a multiplying variety of long-playing albums apparently aimed at all the jolly clods whose upper and lower lips wrestle while they read. These Records for Illiterates—there are hundreds—give the word on everything from Human Fertility to Communist Trickery; they tell how toTrain Your Dog, fly an airplane, ride a horse; they even advise, in ministerial tones, what to do If the Bomb Falls.

Aspiring salesmen buy The Magic Word; teen-age girls are particularly fond of The Sound of Beauty, which comes with a make-up...

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