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...Magic Music's headquarters in the Penobscot Building, studio operators, working six-hour tricks with telephone-girl's headsets, paraded back & forth before long rows of phonograph turntables, each supplying a different bar or nightclub. As patrons dropped their nickels into the slot and phoned their requests, the operators consulted their elaborately cross-indexed files, picked the disc from among 8,000 titles, played it back to the club the request came from. To music-hungry Detroiters, the climax of the evening came when they discovered they could have their requests played not only in their...
...very names of American rivers make poetry, from the Pee Dee to the Little Muddy, from the Penobscot to the Salt. But in Powder River, as in the previous volumes of the series, poetry is lacking. The rivers of America were never so dry as they seem in these books...
Michigan--Luncheon at Intercollegiate Club, thirteenth floor of the Penobscot Bldg., December 27, 1 o'clock, Detroit. Secretary, Robert L. Hatch '28, Detroit Trust Co., Detroit, Michigan...
...Southern coast of Maine between Portland and Penobscot Bay, scores of tidal inlets snake from the sea between mud-flat peninsulas, crab-haunted and reedy. In these shallows live salt water worms by the billion, more worms than can be found in any similar region on the Atlantic Coast. For years Maine clamdiggers made a sideline of digging worms for bait, considered them chiefly a damnuisance because during the breeding season from April to June salt water blood-worms sting like bees. Then somebody discovered that when properly packed the worms would stay alive for two days, could be shipped...
Harvard Club of Michigan. Lucheon, December 29, 12.15 o'clock, Intercollegiate Club, 13th floor, Penobscot Bldg., Detroit, Michigan. Secretary, Lowell I. Lofgren, 1004 Union Guardian Bldg., Detroit...