Word: phonographers
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...passionate partisans, the phonograph needle is as bellicausal a topic as that needle of the medieval theologians on which angels might or might not throng to dance. Every variety of phonograph needle -vegetable (fibre, thorn), metal (steel, brass, chromium, etc.), mineral (sapphire) -has had its champions. Meantime, most people keep on buying steel needles. Last year 750,384,450 needles were sold in the U. S. Last week Philco Radio & Television Corp. needled the phonograph industry with its first basic change since electrical reproduction (1925). Philco put on sale a machine ($129.95 to $395) with a built-in needle intended...
...Some phonograph records are musical events. Each month TIME notes the noteworthy...
...outsiders, Jehovah's Witnesses are without doubt the most irritating of U. S. sects. They clatter about the country in jalopies, often a couple to a car, the man in overalls, the woman in calico. They ring doorbells, ask whoever answers to listen to their phonograph records attacking all "organized religion" (the Roman Catholic church in particular) as a racket. They disregard the law because they owe allegiance to "none but God." In school their children refuse to salute the flag, believing that it is a graven image. Last week into clink from Maine to Texas as alleged spies...
...scraps of paper which he filed in his tattered pockets. When one batch of scraps was collated, it turned out to be a fantasy about U. S. Inventor Thomas Alva Edison. In Adam's The Future Eve, "le wizard de Menlo Park" meditates and mourns that his phonograph was invented too late to record the really great sounds of human history -the blaring of the trumpets of Jericho, Memnon's sigh to the dawn and "the superb whisper of Creation itself: Fiat...
...Spencer Tracy, Edison beds down thriftily in the basement of a bank for which he soon contrives a stock ticker. He also has a decorous love affair with the future Mrs. Edison (Rita Johnson), invents the phonograph by left-handed chance, the electric light by hard work, battles heroically to secure the street-lighting franchise for Manhattan, signs off with honors...