Word: discs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...visitors on the long side of a 3 to 1 count, the Crimson finally clicked. First George Gebelein, who scored the Crimson's first goal on Johnny Paine's first period pass from behind the cage, scored again. Gordy McGrath, left wing on the starting line, fired the disc in on the St. Nick's goaler, who cleared it poorly. Gobelein was waiting for the rebound and had little trouble in backhanding the puck into an open...
Phonograph records for children last week began their seasonal boom. Victor, most kiddie-conscious of disc makers, released its Christmas list: six sides from Walt Disney's Dumbo, and eleven Bluebird (Victor's cheaper label) albums. Seven of the eleven albums are the work of Helen Myers, who is the Rodgers & Hart of pint-sized music. Miss Myers, onetime Oklahoma City Junior Leaguer, Phi Beta Kappa, concert and jive pianist (a year at Manhattan's Rainbow Room), composer of moderately successful popular songs, has been with Victor for two years, dreaming up ideas for the children...
...near Coney Island), the Information Center moved with precision and dispatch. Its instructions guided the operations of 250 pursuit ships, batteries of 800,000,000-candle-power searchlights, five anti-aircraft regiments. Although at first as much as six minutes elapsed between a flash and the allocation of a disc, the Center soon got its timing close to the 40 seconds which the Army thinks adequate. The Army had high praise for the Bell System which arranged the location of observation posts. Only fault some Army officers had to find with the setup: it was operated by the Office...
...Smith got the woman's body a couple of feet up. Frank took up one wrist, round which was an identity disc. 'Mrs. Miller,' he read off. Mrs. Miller had been a very big, strong and vigorous woman. 'Get a rope,' said the man in plus-fours...
Each 15-minute program takes up one side of a $2.50 commercial disc (not playable on an ordinary phonograph). "The Ballad Hunter," whose commentary is part of the programs, is John A. Lomax, honorary curator of the Library's great Archive of American Folk Song...