Word: phonograph
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Editors of the CRIMSON had thought themselves winners in contributing 300 entries to the contest that week. They were not successful in copping top television honors, but Philip Morris adjudged the Crimeds runners-up and gave them second prize of an Admiral radio-phonograph console, capable of playing the new 45-minute records. Philip Morris representative Jacques Paulen expressed "extreme satisfaction" with contest results...
...Researcher Edward G. Thurston of Pennsylvania State College to work on a gadget. Result of their collaboration is a surgeon-alarm for gallstones: a tiny quartz crystal enclosed in silver at the end of a slender, hollow silver probe, and attached to an amplifier. The quartz acts like a phonograph pickup; when the probe touches a gallstone, it makes a ping or click-like the noise made when two small rocks are knocked together. The sound can be amplified enough to be heard through operating-room loudspeakers, or tuned down to the surgeon's earphones...
Last week Dr. Morton C. Kahn of Cornell University Medical College reported that the dirty trick has been played, and that it works fine. Dr. Kahn, unlike Entomologist Hyslop (see below), is fiercely anti-insect. He went to Cuba and made a phonograph record of the song of a female Anopheles albimanus (a malaria carrier). Then he put a powerful loudspeaker in a buzzing Cuban swamp and surrounded it by a deadly electrified screen...
...Lobos never moved from his cramped little apartment in downtown Rio, chaotically cluttered with papers, overflowing ashtrays, strange native instruments and dozens of hats (he collects them). There he has lived, ranting in a mixture of Portuguese and his fluent French, or composing quietly in a corner with a phonograph blaring in his ear. When visitors come, he can be rude ("I hate singers," he once bellowed at one he had just met), or he may entertain them for hours, playing records or showing them how he can sound three different rhythms all at once-with hands, feet and mouth...
...Swiss dentists reported their impressions of Los Angeles. Said Dr. Georges Lebet: "Everything here is automatic. Automatic machines toast your bread, pour your soft drinks, change your phonograph records, even shave your face." Said Dr. P. H. Lugeon: "Your beer is nearly frozen. Your beefsteak, vegetables, milk, are frozen nearly hard. Everything is refrigerated, even your young ladies...