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...none before the 20th century, he lives also in his own reading of those lines. The success of Caedmon's Dylan Thomas disks (25,000 copies sold in three years) is only part of a current boom in "speaking records." The idea itself is as old as the phonograph.* But recently, literature for listening rather than reading-"the book that talks"-has won a major place on U.S. bookshelves...
...more point. As it was, they were discarded whenever a brighter prospect for a song or laugh presented itself and resurrected when the authors would settle for a routine smile: "I'm getting tired of these parties, the same old people, the same old drinks, and on the phonograph, last year's Gregorian chants...
...greatest drain upon book resources has been the growing popularity of phonograph records. Ever since a music-minded Dunster chairman spent the House's entire sum stocking his favorite albums, this portion has been limited to one third of the grant, or $200. Nevertheless, with library committees, always spending the maximum for records, book needs are slighted. Since the original figure of $600 did not take into account these unexpected purchases, the College should now increase its House library grants...
...audiophile was listening, fascinated, to a highly polished but weak-spirited phonograph. The tune was the familiar Pagan Love Song, but the words sounded strange: "Native cows are calling/Do the wings go on . . ." Since the listener knew that the lyric actually reads: "Native hills are calling/To them we belong," he was easily able to diagnose the troubles in the phonograph: limited frequency response; harmonic, intermodulation and transient distortion, peaking, and possibly flutter; nonlinearity and needle talk. The audiophile's only prescription for a cure: get a high-fidelity...
Although the lawbooks of 40 states still carry strict Fair Trade statutes, the law of the market place has reduced enforcement to an absurdity on appliances, cameras, power tools, electric mixers, phonograph records and dozens of other items. While Fair Trade pricing is still fairly successful on hundreds of other household items (toothpaste, vitamin pills, jewelry), many merchants question the entire system. Fair Trading has defeated its own purpose, in that it brought great prosperity to the discount houses and other price cutters it was designed to outlaw...