Word: phonographed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this, thanks to the phonograph, it is not necessary to know "the technical facts and names of what you are hearing." With the help of a cardboard ruler (provided with each volume), to indicate positions on records, Haggin guides his reader through recordings of more than a score of great compositions, pointing out the developing musical speech of each, the points of special eloquence. Of his reader he asks hard eye & ear work, but in the end the possible rewards may include, for instance, "the right frame of mind to listen to one of the greatest wonders achieved by human...
...extraordinary even by radio-cinema standards. Eddy's concert tours sell out way in advance, and he averages $15,000 a week from them. His radio salary is $5,000 a week, not including guest appearances. Another $60,000 to $80,000 a year accrues from his phonograph recordings, at least four of which have sold over a million discs apiece. With his movie income, his total earnings to date are about...
...told "no" by James Caesar Petrillo, boss of all U.S. musicians, after he politely asked Mr. Petrillo to stop the two-year-old ban against making phonograph records. (RCA Victor and Columbia, which make two-thirds of U.S. phonograph records, have refused to pay Petrillo's union a tribute for each record-which for the entire industry would total from $500,000 to $3,000,000 a year to the union treasury.) Some Republicans howled that the President sent troops in to haul out obstinate employers, but was humble before Labor Boss Petrillo. Some suspected that Mr. Roosevelt...
Rumors of new, improved methods of phonograph recording (on wire, film, etc.) have filled the wartime air. Last week one of the biggest U.S. recording companies, RCA Victor, said that, so far as its own products are concerned, there will be no such radical changes. Said RCA Victor: "In our opinion, nothing now contemplated in the laboratories or in use commercially at present shows any signs of offering such flexibility, tonal fidelity and simplicity, at low cost, as do the conventional disc and phonograph...
...Major General Frederick L. Martin, boss of the ground-bound Army Air Force on Oahu, now retired because of chronic gastric ulcers and increasing deafness, plays golf and listens to phonograph records in West Los Angeles, Calif. General Martin declared: "There's an awful lot that hasn't been told...