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Everything Pat knows of professional singing she learned from listening to records on a battered portable phonograph. The California-born daughter of a Japanese farmer (almonds, grapes and peaches), she passed the war years in a detention camp in Colorado, graduated from California's San Jose State College and lit out for New York and (she hoped) Europe before settling for a teaching career. In Manhattan her money dribbled away. To pay the rent Pat was willing to try anything, landed a walk-on spot in the road company of Teahouse of the August Moon. Cast members heard...
Most Portable Portable. A portable radio-phonograph (8½ in. by 11 in.) was put on sale by the Rockland Precision Manufacturing Co. The transistor set requires only four ordinary flashlight batteries to operate, will play 6,000 records (45 r.p.m.) or 750 hours of radio without a battery change. Price: $79.95 for the set, $49.95 for the phonograph alone...
Spring had finally really arrived, and at various places around the Square and the Yard it was beginning to show. Passing the Music Box record shop on Holyoke Street, one could see two Harvard men sit down before a phonograph and begin to listen to all the 5000 records in the store. The one who went to sleep first lost, but got $10 anyway; the winner received $25. Paramount and M-G-M sent news cameramen and Fox Movietone was reported to be interested in recording the event...
...Vatican turned thumbs down on electronic religion. From the Sacred Congregation of Rites last week came instructions to the clergy forbidding the use of phonograph records or tape recordings in religious services, even where no other music is available. Such mechanical devices are permissible in church only for the purpose of instructing singers, never during a liturgical function, which requires the full bodily participation of the faithful...
...time when a Dodge car ("if your family happened to own a Dodge") was the best there was, who recalls the wonderful sensation of running smack into wet sheets hanging on a backyard line ("Do that with an electric drier!"), and well remembers that one important use for a phonograph was to see how far the turntable could throw a horse chestnut. Smith knows he does not have a chance to prevail in the golden age of the child psychologist. He is simply a brave, worried man who knows that boys "don't want science. They want magic...