Word: phonograph
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...story. But many Frenchmen were surprised at some other government activities. The book showed that the government manages music halls, theater-ticket agencies, a drugstore, a vineyard. It is the nation's biggest ship owner, banker, printer and publisher, sells most of France's phonograph records, runs most of the gambling houses. In all, by unofficial estimate, the government owns outright 167 companies, has an interest in 67 others. And it loses on some of them. On the railroads alone, the government will rack up a deficit of $137 million this year...
...penetrating look into early adolescence. A young girl, delicately played by Francette Vernillat, thinks her admiration and affection for an artist will cause her to bear a child. Director Allegret adds tremendous tension to the story by directorial touches such as focusing the camera on a run-down phonograph while the child's widowed mother and her lover are alone in an adjoining room...
...York Herald Tribune a beaver was almost incognito as "the furry, paddle-tailed mammal." CJ In the New York Times, phonograph records became "the noisy disks...
...Music. Columbia Records brought out a small (7 in. by 7 in.), box-enclosed speaker with a long extension cord which can be plugged into its new "360" phonograph (TIME, Dec. 22, 1952) as an auxiliary speaker. The music, coming from both the phonograph and extra speaker, "surrounds" the listener and is reproduced with a richer tone. Price...
POCKET Books, Inc. is getting ready to invade the phonograph-record business in September with a line of hit tunes on 7-inch, 45-and regular 78-r.p.m. plastic records that will sell...