Word: phonograph
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...until Wednesday a week ago) Mrs. Thompson and Craig Jr. were feeling pretty foresighted about already having had their inoculations and many weeks of Russian-language study from phonograph records. Then at noon Wednesday their several months' grace disappeared in two minutes flat: the phone rang and an official voice told the Thompsons they could have space on the Warren Delano, bound for Constanta in Rumania-if they could report with their baggage and their papers the very next day! (Rumania isn't Russia, but this was the best offer yet, so Mrs. Thompson said okay...
Last week the Rev. Mr. Forbes, onetime chaplain of Philadelphia's City Mission, used the Bishop's words as ammunition in taking a few pot shots at those "pundits in religious education" who for 25 years "like an old phonograph record" have been expressing "great concern" over the "shocking ignorance" of Christian youth -and doing nothing about it. Chaplain Forbes had recommendations...
...postwar home will be thoroughly wired for sound. To the radio and phonograph, wartime inventors have promised to add wire recorders and tape recorders. Last week a new sound recorder turned up-a slow-motion phonograph that plays for hours & hours without changing records...
...Beverly Hills furniture store, Di Ghilini developed a recording machine which embosses (presses) a sound groove in a disc instead of cutting it, which is the accepted current method. His embossing system makes it possible to run a record at much slower speed than on the usual phonograph...
...still vivacious, returned to the U.S. to tour in a new role. She starts with a July 23 appearance on NBC's Telephone Hour and she has a large and enthusiastic audience waiting-but not the nostalgic audience of yesterday. Her waiting fans are a young generation of phonograph-record connoisseurs, who for the past five years have prized her records of 19th-Century French songs. Many of her new fans are unaware that Maggie Teyte has ever been...