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...Army, Navy and Merchant Marine as coating for a great variety of equipment, from guns to life rafts. Its manufacturer, the old Manhattan shellac firm of William Zinsser & Co., is turning out more Zinlac than its total prewar sales of shellac. Zin lac, however, will not help in making phonograph records, normally one of the chief U.S. users of shellac. On records, this corn product does not work...
Last week, via the voices of Frank Sinatra and the Mills Brothers, this musical tickler was mooning out of every radio and juke box in the U.S. The top song hit of the month, Paper Doll had a sheet-music sale of more than 500,000 copies and a phonograph-record sale of close to a million. It was proving again that yesterday's flop may live to be today's smash, and recalling the story of a very woebegone resident of Tin Pan Alley...
...labor leader, Boss Petrillo could afford to congratulate himself. Decca Records agreed to pay A.F. of M. a royalty from ¼ ?to 5? on every phonograph record sold...
...most infectious men alive. With his wife Anita and their two musically gifted sons, Maurice, 15, and Ronald, 14, he lives in an eight-room English brick house in St. Albans, L.I. The house has a Hammond organ, a size B Steinway grand and an automatic phonograph with 1,500 records. Next to Lincoln and F.D.R., Fats considers Johann Sebastian Bach the greatest man in history...
Tympani. In Denver, burglars who stole 20 phonograph records from Dr. Neal Bishop's car may or may not have been happy about the swag-all were recordings of the peculiar beats of diseased hearts...