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...with boxes for brushes and paints. Major John Eisenhower's choice was a set of Autobridge, enabling the President to play all four hands in turn. From the President's grandchildren came a book of crossword puzzles, another book called 150 Ways to Play Solitaire, and a phonograph record of a monologue, What It Was, Was Football. In the President's room bloomed red roses and autumn flowers, picked from his mother's garden at Abilene. Kans...
...only way to meet this competition. Columbia decided, was to swing a club of its own, and it offered dealers 20% of the retail price of records bought by every new member they bring in. Columbia is tooled up to service 500,000 subscribers (about 5% of U.S. LP phonograph owners) with performances by Columbia's own stars in jazz, pop, film and classical fields. For every two records bought the subscriber gets one specially pressed disk free. First classical bonus: Sir Thomas Beecham conducting "Great 19th Century Overtures...
Transistor Phonograph. A 7½-lb. portable phonograph that uses transistors instead of vacuum tubes will be put on sale by the Philco Corp. The phonograph will play for 150 hours on the power produced by four standard flashlight batteries costing 10? each v. the $6 batteries used in current portable phonographs. Price...
...Payments for banners, musicians or music, choirs, phonograph records. Music may be used if donated and if no copyright fees are paid, but regulations are so complex that most campaign experts prefer musicless campaigns...
Then, after unlocking the final, fifth door between the ward and the outside world, he stepped into a scene rarely found in hospitals for the mentally ill. The "Bunny Hop" was blaring on a little wind-up phonograph. A Radcliffe freshman was dancing with a wizened old man whose eyes were almost as lively as his feet. A Harvard junior was getting ready for a game of musical chairs with seven women whose ages were hidden behind prematurely-drawn faces...