Word: phonographers
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...French, Italian, Russian, Urdu, seems to be at home anywhere. Last fortnight, in the thick of the Italian fighting, his U.S. aide, Captain John Grimsby, was startled to hear a guttural German voice barking in the General's room. It was Alexander taking his German lesson from a phonograph...
Thanks to the radio and phonograph, most schoolboys know the words to the current popular songs. But how many schoolboys know the Bible? A quiz probing into this question recently fascinated parents on Philadelphia's suburban Main Line. Haverford School's Headmaster Leslie R. Severinghaus tested 252 boys (13-to 18-year-olds) on quotations from song hits and from the Bible. The test...
...most energetic of first-rank U.S. maestros; 2) in the twelve years he has spent conducting the Minneapolis and Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra, Ormandy has rolled up a radio following comparable to that of such symphonic bigwigs as Serge Koussevitzky and Arturo Toscanini; 3) he has made more phonograph recordings than any other living maestro except Leopold Stokowski...
...genial, gangling Pennsylvania Dutchman whose foresight and tenacity once did much to save a whole industry. When radio was born, it swept U.S. music lovers off their feet, swept the mechanical phonograph into the dustbin. But Shumaker of Victor phonographs (who later became Victor's president) did not quit. He believed in the possibilities of electrified phonograph recording and reproduction. Driven by him, Victor scrapped its elaborate machinery, began making a new type of machine and record. Electrified, the industry went on to its greatest boom...
...unemployment of musicians exists. Two union members out of three do not depend on music for a livelihood. The union's criterion, that a member not working full time on music is unemployed, is untenable." Also, the panel concluded after 1,970 pages of testimony, radio and the phonograph record probably have not decreased employment...