Word: phonographers
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...Happen Here." This hastily evacuated house still had the stage props of any typical American home. There were brrightly colored children's phonograph records, a woman's lacy hat, copies of Collier's and the Saturday Evening Post, and bottles of Coca-Cola in the refrigerator. Something inside this comfortable house seemed to say: "It can't happen here." Outside, the field guns rumbled...
...blossoming frangipani, hibiscus and bougainvillaea, soaked up sunshine for two hours and took a dip in the blue-green waters of the Gulf of Mexico. He went for a dip again on St. Patrick's Day-wearing green trunks. That evening he got out a big batch of phonograph records, gave his staff a canned concert of piano selections-such pieces as the Blue Danube and a Chopin Polonaise...
Singer Margaret Whiting was born with a silver tuning fork in her hand. Her father, Songwriter Richard A. Whiting (Till We Meet Again, Japanese Sandman, Sleepy Time Gal) was already a big moneymaker in the Pianola, windup phonograph and battery-radio era of popular music. Her aunt and namesake, raucous-voiced Vaudevillian Margaret Young, introduced such ragtime hits as Nobody's Sweetheart Now and Way Down Yonder in New Orleans. Sophie Tucker was little Margaret's red-hot godmamma...
...Kirkland House, John Hicks' old dwelling lost its last tenants and became the House library. Bookshelves were installed, and each of the nine rooms of the house was filled with books of one particular field. Overstuffed chairs and new pictures were put in, a cellar for overflow and phonograph records installed, and a new door built connecting the library with the House proper...
Good quality demands that all the parts of a phonograph be high fidelity and it is here that most standard phonographs suffer. An amplifier that goes up to 15,000 cycles is useless when the needle cannot pick up anything over 6000. Good amplifiers are often found hooked up to poor speakers or changers. The versatility of custom-built arrangements does away with this problem...