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...smoldering day-bed was also demolished and principal damage otherwise was to a carpet and phonograph records. Exam notes and a thesis were not harmed...
...first article for a national magazine, "The New Germany," in the Nation, a chilling report on the early Nazi regime. The article was a sensation, and Neuberger decided to become a fulltime, free-lance writer. He set up shop in his mother's house, where, between reveries over phonograph records (his favorites : marches and Gaité Parisienne), he turned out a Niagara of nonfiction. By last week, after 20 years and some 750 articles and six books (including two highly successful children's books), Dick Neuberger was earning around $30,000 a year from his typewriter...
Film to Concrete. Among the new developments since Grove IV: ¶ The phonograph (called gramophone in British English), which in 1940 got 3½ pages plus a perfunctory listing under MECHANICAL APPLIANCES (along with barrel organs and pianolas). gets eight pages in 1954, including the comment that "all over Europe . . . American technicians are to be found with their spools of recording tape." ¶ Film music, with no listing in Grove IV, gets 16 pages documenting the art from its early catch-all scores (catalogued as The Slimy Viper, Gruesome Misterioso, Love's Response, etc.) to background music by such...
Innocent people think that to enjoy music all they need is a phonograph, a few records, and a little time. The record connoisseur knows better. He finds it is his duty to discuss the merits and demerits of any record ever made, from Aaronovich's fluffed trill in Op. O to Zzinzer's fallow tempos in Op. Posth. He predates the much-publicized hi-fi bug (who specializes in woofers, super-tweeters and push-pull amplifier circuits), but not until now has anyone tried to organize the record connoisseur's guerrilla war and set down some basic...
...Musical Wheaties. As a new promotional gimmick for Wheaties, General Mills has bought 12 million plastic phonograph records (sample ditties: Dixie, Three Little Fishes) from Rainbo Record Corp., Los Angeles. The records are a cut-out part of the Wheaties box, can be played on any 78 r.p.m. phonograph...