Word: phonographers
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...Martin Block decided that there must be better rackets than tearing off Mr. Young's calendar. He found he had a purling, pitchman-style voice that made people buy things. He bought an old Buick, installed a phonograph, a microphone and loudspeaker, parked it under the windows of a chocolate yeast company's directors' meeting, let go with The Stars and Stripes Forever and a blaring, vitaminy commercial. At the music, directorial paunches creased over the window sills. At the commercial, three directors rushed downstairs, hired Martin and his noisemaker at $450 a week to plug chocolate...
...California, in 1933, Martin heard a radio program called The World's Largest Make-Believe Ballroom. It was simply a daily program of phonograph records, but the announcer made a great pretense of having, say, Jan Garber playing on Stage One, Paul Whiteman waiting his turn on Stage Two, Rudy Vallee in the wings, ready to croon. The announcer carried on one-sided conversations with the great names on the record labels, took listeners in their imagination to a Make-Believe Ballroom, far from any two-by-four radio studio...
...free trial phonograph concerts will be given at the Union tomorrow and Sunday evenings at 7 o'clock. All students are invited...
...Some phonograph records are musical events. Each month TIME notes the noteworthy...
...When she arrived, it had a big black stove in the centre. She got rid of that, made the room more habitable. Now it has white curtains with red ribbons at the windows, a new floor, a globe of the world hanging from the ceiling, a map stand, a phonograph (temporarily out of order) with a few records, a water cooler, a mirror, soap and paper towels. Until this fall it had no electric lights, but Miss Campbell raised enough money for that by euchre parties among the parents...