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Indiana. Hulking, heavy-jowled millionaire Republican Homer Capehart, who manufactures juke boxes and super-phonographs and is experimenting with television, was having trouble. His opponent for the Senate: mild, homespun Democratic Governor Henry Schricker, 61, who has eaten fried chicken in almost every church basement in Indiana. Democrat Schricker shrewdly avoids discussing Term IV in Indiana...
...biggest phonographic news of the year by putting out a machine that could play both sides of a record without flipping it over. Up to now, record changers have been of two types: 1) the "drop" type, which plays a stack of records butter-side up only; 2) the Capehart, which flips records like flapjacks on a griddle. Drawback of the drop type: it cannot play alternate sides in sequence. Drawback of the Capehart: it is expensive...
...special feature of the new phonograph is the pickup mechanism of the two prongs, so light that it exerts less pressure (1 oz.) than the weight of the record. Like the Capehart, RCA Victor's new phonograph is expensive ($450). But with both on the market, competition may do a little price regulating...
...Crawfordsville Symphony played originally from borrowed scores, now has a library with a good standard repertory, proudly negotiates a complete symphony at every concert. Wabash College has a Capehart phonograph and a collection of records-gifts of the Carnegie Corporation-which enable the orchestra to hear how the world's big orchestras perform the works in its library. At weekly rehearsals the Crawfordsville musicians often play out of tune, get lost, wheeze and whiffle, come in at the wrong places, and competing basketball games lure away many a player. But as concert nights approach, attendance and teamwork improve...
Inventor Farnsworth, who, besides his televisionary accomplishments, is Philadelphia's leading Mormon, will move his laboratory out to Capehart's streamlined plant in Fort Wayne, Ind. The old General Household plant at nearby Marion will be used for manufacturing. With a complete line of radios, phonographs and radio-phonographs, besides Capehart's record-changer patents, Farnsworth Corp. will have something to keep it busy while'television is turning the corner...