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Camp Wood, for white girls, has a big recreation & dining room, electrically-lighted cabins, tennis courts, ping-pong tables, riding horses, a lake for swimming and boating. At Camp Washita girls live in a dormitory, have a piano, phonograph, radio and cement swimming pool. Camp Bide-a-Wee "is a cool, green spot shaded by huge trees situated beside a clear creek" where "colored women live in screened-in cabins, possess a beautifully furnished main room for recreation and study and have tennis courts, swings and a croquet ground for sports...
...important summer cruises. This aggregation of talented players achieved the national prominence it now holds four years age when it was selected to play on the Lucky Strike program over a coast-to-coast N. B. C. network. Of late this Dartmouth institution has been recording for a leading phonograph company...
...German prestige, for Adolf Hitler had resolved that the 1932 Memel election record in which about 80% of the votes went to German candidates must be bettered. In his recent Nazi Convention speech at Nurnberg the Realmleader loudly electioneered for German candidates in Memel (TIME Sept 23). Last week phonograph records of this speech were broadcast by German stations in such fashion that most Memel voters thought Orator Hitler was exhorting them in person. Up & down the Territory Nazi agents whisper-campaigned, "Hitler is coming! Heads will roll. Vote German! You don't want your house burned down...
Always frail and nervous, Ethelbert Nevin took to drink, died of apoplexy in New Haven. His widow survives. In 1909, unaided and against much opposition, she got Congress to pass a new copyright act requiring royalty payments for phonograph records and piano-rolls, and extending the renewal period for copyrights from 14 to 28 years. Mrs. Nevin also helped University of Pittsburgh to establish an Ethelbert Nevin Memorial Room full of his relics...
...Queen Victoria's only remarks to a phonograph were discovered on a squeaky old Edison cylinder last week, found to be singularly up-to-date and topical. The record, made at Her Majesty's command, voiced her goodwill toward the then Emperor of Ethiopia, great empire-building Menelik. Carried to his wild capital, a reproduction of the cylinder squeaked Victoria's august words into his hairy ear, while the original lay until last week in the archives of London's Edison-Bell...