Word: phonographed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...telephone when no one is home. As Mohawk's President George F. Ryan explained it, when he leaves the house (or office), the gadget's owner puts his cradle-type telephone on the machine. When the phone rings, a mechanism lifts the receiver and turns on a phonograph record. The owner's own recorded voice announces that he is out, asks the caller to leave his message at the sound of a chime. When the owner returns, a meter tells him how many calls have come in, and a wire recorder repeats the messages...
...That the phonograph records of the University march songs, "Up the Street" and "Our Director," purported to have been recorded by the University Band, have been fraudulently made and fraudulently sold will be the claim presented to the Middlesex Country Superior Court at the Equity Session at 10 o'clock this morning...
...gobs of shadow laced with silvery threads and buttons of light. He had put the paint on thickly, Murch explained, because "that helps create a thing out of the painting itself." Among his table-top subjects were a dead bird, a dead fish poised on a clinker, an ancient phonograph, and assorted eggs, lemons and potatoes...
...this out-of-the-groove battle, Mercury Record Corp. joined up with Columbia by announcing that it would produce 33⅓-r.p.m. records. Nevertheless, chances were that the slow-moving phonograph market would slow down even more. Many customers preferred to see more before they bought machines...
Parlor War. The television price war (TIME, Jan. 3) got hotter. RCA unveiled its big new 16-in. set at a price of $495 ($200 below today's closest competitive model). Emerson Radio & Phonograph Corp.'s President Benjamin Abrams promised a 16-in. table model "within 60 days" for only $400, and slashed the present price of the loin. table model by $30. The Hallicrafters Co. said it would do even better; it promised a 16-in. remote control receiver...