Word: phonograph
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nothing is killing radio. It is simply committing suicide. Seventy-five percent of the stuff broadcast is junk . . . Those who want music are buying phonograph records...
Among their other antics, the old Gas-housers had their famed Mudcat Band, whose incidental effect was to disturb the sleep of hotel guests. Eddie Dyer's Cardinals have no band, but they like music. A phonograph continually grinds out cowboy dirges, swing and sometimes bebop in the clubhouse when they are in St. Louis. It is the successor of an old hand-winding Gramophone that Doc Weaver brought into the clubhouse 22 years ago. The music box helped them win the 1942 pennant, with Pass the Biscuits, Mirandy the theme song. In 1946, in another hot pennant race...
Latter-day showmanship has caught up with the Goldenrod. Gone is the calliope; today's come-on music blares out of a phonograph loudspeaker. Past the grimy, scrimshawed deck railings, among the faded filigree inside, customers can find two Coke dispensers and a popcorn machine...
...Chicago, Mrs. Neola Kleidon, granted a divorce after she complained that her husband Charles did not like boogie-woogie, waived alimony payments but won custody of the family phonograph and record collection...
Television. Admiral Corp. showed seven new combination sets with television (12½-in. tube), AM and FM radio, and a phonograph that will play RCA Victor's new 45 r.p.m. records, Columbia 33⅓ r.p.m. long-playing records, and standard 78 r.p.m. discs. Admiral claimed its prices ($475 to $575) were $50 to $200 below comparable sets...