Word: phonograph
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Walter Reuther, the cocky, redheaded president of the C.I.O. United Automobile Workers, is a model husband. He neither drinks nor smokes, hates to travel without his auburn-haired wife Mae, and listens to the family phonograph when other men go to nightclubs. When a meeting of the U.A.W. executive council keeps him in downtown Detroit after the dinner hour, he never fails to telephone, always tries to get home for an icebox snack instead of eating in a restaurant...
Advice to Wooers. Edison couldn't hear the roaring of a train, but when two women who were traveling in it exchanged whispered secrets, he heard every word. He was deaf to the shrillest birdsong-unless it came over his particular amplifying system, the phonograph. He could hear the sharp dots & dashes of the telegraph transmitter, but he couldn't hear a word over Mr. Bell's primitive new telephone-until he took it in hand and helped make a more efficient instrument...
...beyond a story on the show here; it is one of the clearest and best and most trenchant expositions of what modern art is all about. With your reproductions (in LIFE and TIME) you are doing for art what the phonograph and radio have done in popularizing good music...
...cover conferences at which editors pick cover subjects, sometimes weeks, sometimes months in advance. Then he and one of the three cover artists-Ernest Hamlin Baker, Boris Artzybasheff and Boris Chaliapin-decide on the symbolism to accompany the portrait (e.g., for Petrillo, a foot stepping on a pile of phonograph records). Most TIME cover stories are written and edited by the regular staffs of the section in which they appear. Certain cover stories, that present special difficulties or call for a special literary skill, are written by Senior Editor Whittaker Chambers. Some Chambers cover stories: Marian Anderson, Arnold Toynbee, Rebecca...
...prostrate enemy, they broke into the schoolhouse, whirled through classrooms, smashing pictures, vases, chairs, and lamps. They tipped over bookcases, tore up maps, scattered papers, threw books out the windows. They went to the principal's office, threw ink over the walls, smashed up a radio, a phonograph and every record in the room. At the end, they went back to a classroom and wrote on a blackboard: "I'm sorry we had to do it," and "Too bad-from the people who done...