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...first, students are not bothered with spelling; most of their homework is with phonograph records, and the textbooks they do use are spelled phonetically. Gradually, after weeks of listening to long lists of recorded words and phrases, students begin to read, starting with simple cartoon captions and working up to newspapers and regular books. Meanwhile in class and mess hall, they converse constantly, act out skits (e.g., parachuting into enemy territory), see movies with foreign languages dubbed in (among them: The True Glory, with General Dwight D. Eisenhower speaking a rippling, dubbed-in Portuguese). Finally, near...
Slow but Sure. CBS got the jump on RCA, not only in color, but in putting on the market three years ago the slow-playing record that revolutionized the phonograph business. Not long after that, CBS raided NBC's radio shows, snatched away such top stars as Jack Benny, Amos & Andy. At the time NBC lost the stars, it looked as if it would be hard hit. But Sarnoff has a way of coming out ahead, despite defeats. After the rumpus over the long-playing records died down, business for all record companies, including RCA, picked up. Thanks...
Last week, as the second batch of 100 Huk settlers reached Mindanao, the camp had electric lights. It also had plenty of pots & pans, plates, spoons, forks, bedding, cigarettes, mosquito nets, a radio-phonograph with the latest U.S. records, a new commander...
...setmakers were not feeling as cheery as Frank Stanton. Because of the continued slump in sales, layoffs and production cuts were announced last week by Radio Corp. of America, Philco Corp., Allen B. Du Mont Laboratories, Inc., Emerson Radio & Phonograph Co., and Westinghouse Electric Corp. Admiral Corp. announced that unless sales pick up soon, it will have to borrow money to carry its big inventories...
...have grown accustomed to flocks of helpers and assistants. Many will now find themselves scouring their own pans and peeling their own spuds. Generals (some with as many as five aides and orderlies) will be cut down to a single orderly apiece. Division buglers (long outdated by the phonograph record) will be abolished as such, along with such other luxury items as hobby-shop keepers, personnel clerks, athletic directors and division historians...