Word: discs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week Harvard Physics Professor Gerald J. Holton told how he found new evidence to prove this theory. He put water in a small cartridge and compressed it up to 180,000 Ibs. per square inch. In one end of the cartridge was a quartz disc which turned electrical impulses into sound waves. When the sound waves had passed through the water-filled cartridge and echoed back, the quartz turned them again into electrical impulses. By measuring with an oscilloscope the energy of the reflected impulses, Professor Holton could tell how much energy the sound waves had lost in passing...
Wooden tallied when the Crimson defense failed to clear the puck from in front of its own cage. He streaked in, stole the disc and and boat Nate Corning from ten feet out. The losers pressed desperately for the remainder of the contest but could not beat Princeton's close-checking defense...
...anything good, bad or indifferent." The result is a flood of amateur hours, quizzes, shopping talks, gabby interviews, ear-numbing commercials. Local shows tend to be pale reflections of network programs. In Bob Dale, Cleveland has a "skinny Arthur Godfrey." Washington features puppets, girls pretending to be elves, a disc jockey who silently mouths the words his records play. Memphis boasts an unhandy Handy Man named Peter Thomas who convulses viewers by spilling paste on his sponsor and gravy on his guests. Louisville applauds the low-comedy antics of Jim Walton (a blindfolded woman from the studio audience sews...
With such thumbnail plot summaries, a 56-year-old disc jockey named Reuben Bradford is selling opera to Texans. On Dallas' station WFAA, his Opera Once Over Lightly is beamed directly at "the taxi-driver who likes Figaro, but doesn't know...
Though record and sheet-music sales were still climbing, other complaints were being raised in Britain about Puddy-Tat last week. Mocked a columnist in "London's News Chronicle: "Dis is wot de gwown-ups sing, diddums." Disc Jockey Costa had received several mildly abusive letters from anti-puddy-tatters. Sample: "Take a firm grip on your puddy-tat record, face the exit, then bend down with your back to the record that gives you the greatest kick." Asked if he felt any guilt for his part in launching Britain on its current baby-talk rage, Costa looked hurt...