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...primitive nature of the new design has a strong "Flintstone motif," said Aaron D. Edison...
...property of Film Collectors Bill Cayton and Jim Jacobs, Tyson is the only fighter of this century who could knowledgeably declare, "I always wanted to be like John L. Sullivan." Through his managers' remarkable archives, including Tom Edison's 1894 kinetoscope of Gentleman Jim Corbett, Tyson is conversant with a day when boxers soaked their faces in brine and their hands in walnut juice. Fighting twice a month, at first in an Albany cracker box suitably called the Egg, Tyson has seemed to be of that...
...repertory as good as what is now available to them." He was defending 78s against the encroachments of the new long-playing records in much the same terms that LP defenders cast their arguments today. And no doubt there were those who bemoaned the loss of their Edison cylinders when shellac came...
...price of the discs has fallen from an average $20 to around $14. High-end enthusiasts are likely to be the last holdouts in a war that has already been lost. "CDs may not be perfect," says Feldman. "But they are the best thing to come along since Edison invented the phonograph...
...campaigns. In politics these days, the label Christian has connotations that go far beyond religious beliefs; it refers to advocates of a social and political agenda based on the conservative moral outlook shared by many Evangelicals. "It's so great to have some Christians in politics," says John Edison, a community- college student and Robertson precinct delegate from the town of Portage, Mich. In Iowa such Christian activists have already won effective control of the Republican organizations in two counties, including the one that embraces Des Moines. Robertson is not yet an avowed candidate, but he acts like one. Just...