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...Philco's extremely light pickup, a rounded sapphire point almost floats in the record groove, transmits the groove's vibrations to a tiny mirror mounted above it. The mirror, jiggling imperceptibly, picks up a beam from a pea-sized bulb, which it transmits to a photoelectric cell. The cell converts the light waves into the same sort of electric impulses transmitted by an ordinary pickup. Philco claims that the sapphire-tipped pickup will play a disc 700 times without damage; that the sapphire will survive 30,000 to 40,000 playings-about eight years of normal...
...scram). Most of it, however, is still the schoolboys' own, often unintelligible to outsiders. A Bootham boy, for example, says: "Just had a juice-meeting with My Lord for tuzhering a bug." Translation: "I've just been reprimanded by the Headmaster for breaking an electric-light bulb." Some other outlandish schoolboy expressions: belly-go-round (a belt), Medes and Persians (the practice of jumping on a boy in bed), flish (to cane...
Except for a single bulb burning in a downstairs office, the lights went out in the great white Governor's mansion in Baton Rouge, the night Sam Jones defeated Earl Long in the primary run-off for Louisiana's governorship. Five uniformed officers guarded the grounds, chasing away small boys who tried to plant anti-Long signs in the shrubbery. Outside, the night was clamorous: whistles, bells, automobile horns, the music of six bands rising from a parade two blocks away. Overflow from the parade surged past the mansion, shouting insults at the Governor. Confetti drifted down from...
Divorced. Israel Edwin Leopold (Ed Wynn), 53, bespectacled, bulb-nosed comedian; by Frieda Louise Mierse Wynn...
...disappointed when he does not come to her graduation, but climbs bravely into the limousine he sends in loco parentis. She needs all her courage when it deposits her among his screwy family. Auntie is horoscopic, Cousin Barbara is spoiled, Cousin Walter just asks apprehensively: "Does she still sing?" Bulb-eyed, bulgy Uncle Jim (Eugene Pallette, who has had experience as father of an even screwier family in My Man Godfrey) manages to be out when his family is home, home when they are out. Connie quickly warbles her way into the butler's heart by singing La-calle...