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...record business. Inside the box was Columbia's new high fidelity phonograph (the 360) designed by Dr. Peter Goldmark, who developed Columbia's LPs. Until last week, most "hifi" sets, which reproduce music in the home with the clarity and realism of the concert hall, were custom-made from standard parts by small radio & phonograph shops at a cost of from...
Columbia claims that the tone of its phonograph, which will sell for $139.50 and $144.50 (depending on the cabinet), is a match for all but the most expensive custom-made hi-fi sets. It reproduces tones from a low of 50 cycles per second to a high of 12,000 (the ordinary hi-fi range), compared to a smaller tonal range of 80-6,000 c.p.s. in most phonographs. Columbia gets its reproduction chiefly by an extra thick, solid wooden cabinet (which eliminates "tinny" vibration) and two 6-in. speakers located at each side of the phonograph, instead...
...Africans and Fijiians . . . are all risking their lives side by side with Malays, Chinese and Indians . . . These men see their real enemy-Communism. They also see their real friends, and know that the things they are fighting for transcend any differences there might be of skin or color or custom." The club committee resigned in a body, and their successors endorsed a new policy of interracial friendship...
...similar custom is still observed in the French army. La Tour d'Auvergne was a grenadier captain of such legendary courage that his superiors gave him the title of "First Grenadier of France." Ever since his death in battle, at Oberhausen in 1800, his name has been called at formal musters of his old regiment. Each time, a noncommissioned officer steps up to answer: "Dead on the field of honor...
...custom for the Crimson games and for every weekend save the Winter Carnival, the tribe leaves the beloved, ice-elated Hangover campus on masse. Only twice has the Big Green played host, and it can boast of but 21 wins and 3 ties in the 55 meetings of the series...