Word: phonographed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...giver who takes the poll to heart will send any serviceman a cribbage board unless he specifically requests it, nor burden an infantryman with a portable phonograph. He will steer clear of diaries, shun warm bathrobes, spurn a waterproof money belt for any but sailors...
...normal. A sentimental, serious ballad, I'll Walk Beside You, has sold 750,000 copies-more than twice the biggest popular-song sale. The only slump has been in the songs and dance tunes peddled by Charing Cross Road (London's Tin Pan Alley). Phonograph companies, doing a 60% above normal business, cannot cope with the increased demand for classical disks. Most spectacular rise of all-400%-has been in the sales of miniature scores (pocket-size reductions of symphonic scores, usually bought only by musicians, music students and zealous amateurs...
...sophomore at the University of Southern California, Louise is studying marketing and merchandising, collects swing phonograph records, wears crimson lipstick, dotes on chocolate cookies, chocolate candy bars, chocolate ice-cream cones. She has been playing tennis only six years and still has a lot to learn. But the strokes she has mastered (particularly her American twist serve) are nearly as paralyzing as a Joe Louis punch...
Through this drive the War service Committee is aiming to help both industry through an accumulation of actual material, and to boost morale in the armed forces by providing diversion for the soldiers and sailors through phonograph records and musical instruments. Contribution to the drive will also benefit students by making their living quarters more livable...
Inhabitants of the Houses, Dudley, and Wigglesworth will be contacted by entry representatives of the War Service Committee Wednesday and Thursday for any rubber, metal, old clothes and cloth, used phonograph records, or musical instruments which they would like to contribute to Harvard's scrap drive. After the drive entry representatives will continue to relieve students of any scrap they may have, but paper and tin cans are not wanted at present...