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...lounge, on the third floor of Phillips Brooks House, is intended to provide the student with a comfortable place to spend leisure time. Bridge, ping-pong, and billiards are among the recreational facilities. A grand piano and a radio-phonograph, with a record library, cater to the students' musical tastes, while numerous magazines and newspapers will be provided in a smaller room off the main lounge...
...provide the student with a comfortable place to spend odd moments during the day. Its two tastefully decorated rooms contain recreational facilities to suit all tastes. In the large Phillips Brooks Room there will be bridge and ping-pong tables, a billiard table, a concert grand piano, a radio-phonograph, and a large floor space for dancing. In the smaller room opening off the main lounge are comfortable, leather upholstered chairs and several window seats. On the center table in this room will be placed current magazines, daily out-of-down and local newspapers, and stationery with writing materials...
...suggestion box will allow users of the lounge to make recommendations. The wishes of the students as to the kind of phonograph records they want are particularly desired. The PBH record library now consists mostly of popular records. The donation of used records that are in good condition will be appreciated...
...recordings (129 of the Old Testament, 40 of the New), are played on a special slow-rotating phonograph. It takes half an hour to play one side of one record. Total time: 84½ hours...
Some of our correspondents ate Christmas dinner in style. Steve Laird was invited to a castle outside London where he "drank good wine and listened to 1928 American phonograph records." In Cairo P. B. Stoyan dined in Oriental splendor at the home of an Egyptian Bey, a good Moslem who allowed neither women nor wine at the three-hour feast (which included five meat courses). In the Argentine Holland McCombs played host to the bachelor correspondents with an asado (barbecue) right on the edge of the pampas. And half the world away in New Delhi Bill Fisher, Bill Vandivert...