Word: phonographers
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...inadequate gauge of the spell which Webb has cast over the U.S. people, both young and old. There is hardly a child above the age of four who does not know and constantly voice the brassy notes (dum du dum dum) of Dragnet's theme music. Phonograph records (St. George & the Dragonet, Little Blue Riding Hood, Christmas Dragnet) which parody Dragnet's terse, low-keyed dialogue have sold 1,326,000 copies, and Sergeant Friday's calm "All we want are the facts, ma'am" has become a conversation staple. But millions who laugh at Dragnet...
...month-old price war of phonograph records will probably continue locally until Saturday, according to the owners of two Harvard Square record stores...
Amid charges of "unsound business policy," the price war on phonograph records entered its second week in the Harvard Square area...
Cambridge merchants have slashed prices of phonograph records up to 40 percent as the result of a vicious price war between RCA Victor and Columbia Records...
...sprawling plant in Bridgeport, Conn, last week. Columbia Records Inc. made phonograph records in two surprisingly different ways. On the third floor, 250 men in grimy work clothes labored amid the ear-shattering hammer of hydraulic presses and the stench of burned rubber. On the floor below, four neatly dressed men stood by 16 softly purring machines. The four seemingly did nothing but watch the machines work. Yet in an eight-hour shift, each turned out about five times as many records as the sweating men on the floor above...