Word: phonograph
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bandleader Freddy Martin-the man who has made more money from the music of Tchaikovsky and Grieg than the composers did themselves. By last week, Bumble Boogie (titled by Freddy's 14-year-old son, who thereby gets a cut in the profits) had sold a million phonograph records...
...last week hummed, whistled and sang Ringo No Uta (The Song of the Apple). It was Japan's first big sentimental song hit since 1941, when Japanese music went martial. Tokyo's radio station JOAK got 100 requests a day for it. It had sold 200,000 phonograph records and 50,000 copies of sheet music, and would have sold more if its publishers had had the materials. Even G.I.s hummed it. Apple's lyrics, translated...
...since radio art is years behind radio science, no one could guess just how the new gadget would be used. One thing was certain: what with facsimile, television, AM, FM, shortwave and phonograph recording, the radio set of tomorrow would do everything but cook...
This modernized version of Jack and the Beanstalk, told in roguish tones and with many a froggy giggle, has held thousands of moppets glued to the phonograph. It has also kept radio's Hal Peary well stocked in golden eggs. As Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve, the befuddled buffoon he portrays for NBC (Sun., 6:30-7 p.m., E.S.T.), he got $40,000 for recording Jack, Puss in Boots and Rumpelstiltskin in a four-record album for Capitol Records. ("I did it just for a lark," said he, "and didn't expect to make more than carfare money...
Barzun agreed with the Student Council reports on general education that the issue of allotting college budgets to research rather than to teaching was the vital one in connection with the death of tutorial. "To be more than a phonograph," he admitted, "a teacher has to keep abreast of research in his field and do some original thinking...