Word: phonograph
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...houses, and the fraternities and sororities on Langdon Street, spilling over into Army barracks, an ordnance works and three trailer camps. It now costs about $1,000 a year to go to college in Madison, for board, room and tuition, with not much left over for beer, dates and phonograph records...
...inch, unbreakable, paper-thin record that played as much music as a 12-inch ($1.31) disc. But it will reportedly sell for much less. There was one big catch; the record had to be played at 45 revolutions a minute (instead of the standard 78). Thus, to play it, phonograph owners would need an expensive special attachment...
This news was so calamitous to phonograph makers and record sellers that it threatened to drown out the joyful celebrating over the end of James C. Petrillo's ban* on recordings (see Music). Said one Chicago radio executive: "It raises chaos in the entire industry, just as a change in rail gauges would do to railroads...
...students have found a way to hypnotize people with phonograph records. Paul I. Sparer '49 and Elton B. McNeil '49, authors of the experiment, are now ready to hand over their findings to anyone who wants to go further into the field, Sparer announced last night...
Third prize of a standard radio-phonograph went to the Spee Club. Spee-men finished up the eight-week Philip Morris grind with a final spurt of 200 wrappers with game predictions to capture their $180 award...