Word: jukebox
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...strange deity chock-full of panels, bobbins, and spools of wire. His memory was perfect and his playback repertory ran to 463,635 recorded hours. Ellen's late father, an audio-research addict, had fed Mikki everything: Bach, stock-market predictions, forgotten pre-Edison records. "Some jukebox!" said her younger brother Charles, admiringly. But Mikki was more than a giant jukebox; he was first cousin to all the electronic brain machines whose touted destiny is to make modern man obsolete...
...second resettlement area right in the heart of Huk-infested Luzon. Said Magsaysay: "I'll, make it a model farm with comfortable beds, refrigerators and movies. It will be the show window of democracy in Hukland. It will attract the Huks like a jukebox attracts teen-agers...
...G.l.s who like jive and pin-up girls in about equal proportions, the Armed Forces Radio Service hit upon a neat solution: wrap up both and deliver them in a single package. The package is a pretty ex-movie starlet named Rebel Randall, the disc jockey of Jukebox, U.S.A., whose face and statistics (36 in. bust and hips, 24-in. waist) are every bit as appealing as her throaty voice...
...Orleans is the domain of Costello's partner, "Dandy Phil" Kastel, and of Carlos ("The Little Man'') Marcello, a squat Sicilian who controls the racing wire for Chicago's Capone syndicate. Marcello is a partner with Kastel and Costello in the Beverly Club, owns a jukebox company, slot machines and a fleet of shrimping vessels. Last year he publicly pistol-whipped a man in the heart of New Orleans, but not a single witness to the event has yet turned...
...taken the WPA-supported Oklahoma State Symphony in hand, built it into a self-supporting outfit (with 4,500 subscribers) that any state could be proud of. Said Daily Oklahoman Critic Tracy Silvester last week: "In an area that has run pretty much to hillbilly and jukebox renditions, he has developed a literate orchestra [public] through sheer grit in presenting only what he thought was good music...