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...Leading phonograph record makers startled the industry in August by: 1. Withdrawing all records by German composers. 2. Cutting in two the price of classical records. 3. Calling "Ballad for Americans" Red propaganda. 4. Turning thumbs down on swing music. 5. Putting an $18 radio-phonograph on the market...
Died. Leon Forrest Douglass, 71, millionaire inventor and co-founder of the Victor Talking Machine Company; after a long illness; in San Francisco. Once said to have "done more to abolish peace and quiet than anyone else now living," Douglass gave Edison's phonograph a spring motor, brought its inventor his first cash reward. Once he had his daughter fight an octopus to publicize his underwater camera. Other Douglass inventions: a magnetic torpedo for World War I, the first pay telephone, a device for double reproduction of sound in radio...
...Annenberg, one of the most corrupt-one of the most corrupt-one of the most corrupt-one of the most corrupt-one of the. . . ." Horrified, a studio employe grabbed the phonograph arm, moved it back a notch or two. Promptly into the same groove went the voice of Harold Ickes: "Moe Annenberg, one of the most corrupt-one of the most corrupt-one of the most corrupt-one of the most corrupt -one. . . ." Although WXYZ immediately aired an explanation, some people in Detroit were convinced that Secretary Ickes stuttered...
made the biggest record news in six years: it slashed classical-record prices. Of the money that the U. S. spends for phonograph records, at least 30% goes for classical records, but the volume of classical record sales is only 10% of the annual output. On them the record companies try to turn a profit by a low volume-high price policy. Yet their big business in discs is in the popular 35?-to-75? record field. Record manufacturers have always explained the low volume of classical record sales on the ground that there are comparatively few high-brow record...
...Some phonograph records are musical events. Each month TIME notes the noteworthy...