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...Radio, Columbia Phonograph Co., Inc. makes phonographs and records. Last week it announced that by early May it will be selling a radio of its own make. Said Columbia President Herman E. Ward, newly elected, "It may be a startling policy in American industry, but Columbia will defy the modern fetish of mass production. The receiving set we are now manufacturing . . . will create demand volume which we shall supply-that and no more...
...should like to correct a statement made in the section on music in your issue of April 4. You mention a phonograph record of Mlle. Lucienne Boyer, and say that "Parisians go to the swank Monseigneur to hear her sing" or something of the sort...
...Manhattan engineers, Edwin H. Loftin and S. Young White, last week announced that they had perfected a compact self-recording phonograph; and were going to install duplicates in public booths. For 25? a customer speaks the message he is too inept, lazy or hurried to write. He may mail the disc or he may give it to a telephone operator to play over long-distance. The Loftin-White device also answers telephones, automatically records messages. Suggested name: postephony...
...muddle them by conversing loudly. Later the class lasts longer-15 minutes for study, 15 for answers-with harder work to do: mathematical examples, psalms or poetry to be learned, a picture to be gazed at. The distractions get worse & worse: a vacuum cleaner buzzing, an alarm clock, a phonograph record...
Columbia had been founded by Publisher H. M. Newman of the Fourth Estate, was affiliated with Columbia Phonograph Co. and the Arthur Judson Concert Bureau. Broadcaster Newman got time on WOR and WABC. Then he sold control to a Philadelphia contractor, Jerome Louchheim. When Contractor Louchheim turned Columbia Broadcasting System over to young William Paley it consisted of WABC and 15 affiliated stations bound under loose contracts, and it was costing him more money every...