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...package: Genius Edison's old five-building laboratory in West Orange, N.J., his gabled Victorian house near by, his library of some 10,000 books, most of the earliest working models of his inventive "firsts." Among the heirlooms: the first universal stock-market ticker, the first successful phonograph, the first commercially practical incandescent light bulb, the first generator to produce electricity efficiently...
Imaginary Orchestra. In Moscow the Oistrakhs live in a six-room flat in a large apartment house where his great friend Prokofiev used to live. He has a passion for gadgets ("toys for big children"), owns a collection of recording machines and a phonograph, although he has regretfully given them up as aids to music teaching ("The student plays, then you play back what he played, then he plays again and the hour goes to pot"). Between teaching at the Moscow Conservatory, making records, editing violin music for the government publishing company and brooding about chess games. Oistrakh sometimes finds...
Next to the phonograph, the piano is the U.S.'s fastest selling musical instrument, and it is doing better than at any time since the big boom days of the '20s. The American Music Conference, which keeps track, said last week that sales so far this year are 20.32% above 1954: at that rate, some 180,000 pianos will be shipped by year's end. About 19 million Americans now play piano. Next most popular instruments: guitar (played by 4,000,000), stringed instruments (3,000,000), woodwinds and brasses (2,000,000 each), ukulele...
...rambling fashion Clair's plot tells of two prison buddies who want to escape their dull routine "pour la liberte." One of them succeeds and soon becomes president of a phonograph factory. The other, an incorrigible remanticist, is captured. After his subsequent release, he takes a job on the assembly line in his materialist friend's plant. The two discover each other, the police discover the materialist, and they start all over again...
...eyes of the crew of an LST with a proud performance of Stardust. In Burma U.S. troops heard Tokyo Rose play it at midnight. In Tokyo a Japanese journalist named Tateishi and two pals huddled in a closet during a B-29 raid, listening to Stardust on a portable phonograph...