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Astatic Microphone Laboratory, Inc. (of Youngstown, Ohio) was puzzled when Du Pont gave it orders, with a high Government priority, for numbers of sensitive phonograph pickups. Astatic Microphone was still more surprised to find out that Du Pont engineers were putting the phonograph needles not on phonograph records but against factory fences, relaying the wires' vibrations to amplifiers. So Asiatic's engineers redesigned their pickups to make them more compact and weatherproof. Du Pont last fortnight announced the result: fences (equipped with five pickups to the mile) which can catch a wren's song or the sighing...
...radio, phonograph or refrigerator? Too bad; after present supplies run out, no more can be made...
...Saint Paul (Minn.) Gallery & School of Art has equipped its main gallery with a phonograph, on which visitors last week could play a recorded lecture explaining its current exhibition of French war posters. Saint Paul's phonograph not only saved lecturers' fees but has upped attendance...
...phonograph companies, noting that record buyers were growing more samba-conscious, had seven albums on the market. A year ago they had none...
...jazz devotees as author of the first serious book on the subject: Aux Frontières du Jazz (1930). Critic Goffin both looked and sounded authoritative. "Tiger Rag" said he, "is the second tableau of a quadrille I used to dance to in Brussels as a boy." Phonograph records illustrated his points...