Word: disks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...realistic pingpong ball, seems ready to make itself heard in the mass record market. Last week Columbia Records removed the only obstacle to industry agreement on standards for new stereo records by announcing that it had set aside its own, different, version of a sound-in-the-round disk...
Physicist DuBridge should have been around to discourage Edison. Then we wouldn't have disk jockeys. If he could have told Columbus that a round world was loose talk, we wouldn't have California. Heaven knows what we'll get from Mars or the moon...
Pull Up Some Wood. Amid his bouncing and shuffling teenagers, ex-Harmonica Player Clark is right at home. Personable and polite, he manages to sound as if he really means such glib disk-jockey patter as, "Let me pull up a hunk of wood and sit down with you." This air of sincerity is Clark's biggest attraction. Though ABC has mailed out 300.000 of his photographs since last summer, boyishly handsome Clark believes that most teen-agers see him less as a romantic idol than as the ideal big brother who understands their problems. On the problem...
...radio-station owner in Utica, N.Y., Teen-Age Spokesman Clark won his spurs as a disk jockey while attending Syracuse University, caught on with ABC's WFIL-TV in Philadelphia after graduating in 1951. At first his youthful appearance counted against him. He looked unauthoritative as a newscaster, and the wrong man to be plugging beer when he seemed hardly old enough to drink it. He got his big chance in July 1956, when he took over Bandstand, a jukebox-and-dance show that had been playing locally for four years...
Such teen-age adulation has brought Disk Jockey Clark offers to make a dozen movies. But to date, Clark's rugged round of rock 'n' roll for TV has left him no time for Hollywood. In fact, he is so busy rolling in the money as the Pied Piper of the teen-agers that when his wife Barbara and their year-old son move this summer into a new beach house that Clark's jack has built on the Maryland shore, he simply won't have time to join them...