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...Pocket Phonograph. Emerson Radio & Phonograph Corp. brought out a small (8½ in. by 4⅜ in.), light (less than 2 Ibs.) British-made phonograph that operates on four flashlight batteries, automatically adjusts to 33⅓ or 45 r.p.m. The base has a spindle on which the record rides; the top has a tone arm with a needle, flaps over to play the record. Price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOODS & SERVICES: New Ideas, Jan. 11, 1960 | 1/11/1960 | See Source »

...factory dumps for his materials, which he assembles elaborately. Paolozzi begins by pressing his bits of industrial detritus into soft clay, which he then fills with soft wax. Then he combines hundreds of small wax forms to build up his figures. A cogwheel may do for a navel, a phonograph pickup for an arm. Finally cast in bronze, they become mysterious idols of fusion and confusion. Explains Paolozzi: "My occupation can be described as the erection of hollow gods with the head like an eye, the center part like a retina . . . the legs as decorated columns or towers, the torso...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Blue Britons | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

...emphasizing land-based space. Children have to have something they can understand. Outer space is too futuresque for them." To duplicate the thrill of a rocket launching, Louis Marx & Co., world's largest toymaker, is offering a Cape Canaveral Missile Base set (list price: $7.98), with a phonograph record of actual launching countdowns. Ideal's Electronic Fighter Jet (list price: $19.95) simulates a jet cockpit, with "radar" and shooting rockets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETAIL TRADE: The Magic Market | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

...final night of solicitation, Eliot House moved up from second place to win the $20 worth of phonograph records offered by the Coop to the House with the largest rate of per capita giving in the Combined Charities Drive. The Eliot House average was $6.53, nearly double the winning figure of last year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Charities Net $21,657; Eliot Finishes On Top | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

...everything is pretty much in heat throughout the whole film. Orson Welles stirs the ashes, and Lee Remick as Eula, the wife of Varner's lazy son Jody, (Anthony Franciosa) casts a warm glow over the theatre by performing some marvelous romping in and out of bed (with the phonograph playing dixieland full blast). One gets the feeling, consequently, that Jody, who is being pushed out of his father's favor by the stranger Ben Quick (Paul Newman), does not have it so rough...

Author: By Martin Nemirow, | Title: The Long, Hot Summer | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

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