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...basement of a fireproof building on the Oglethorpe campus, whose foundations rest on ancient bedrock which is not likely to be visited by earthquakes. This roomy crypt has already been rendered waterproof. In it Dr. Jacobs and the Scientific American, which has promised enthusiastic cooperation, proposed to place a phonograph or sound film record bearing a salutation from the President of the U. S. to the potentates of 8113; recordings of the voices of King Edward, Stalin. Mussolini, Hitler. Emperor Hirohito and President Lin Shen; encyclopedias and newspapers: stainless steel or Monel metal models of furniture, printing presses, automobiles, airplanes...
Hill Blackett, another GOPressagent in Chicago, had spent six weeks digging up phonograph records of Presidential broadcasts to recall to listeners, in full verisimilitude of tone and voice, Franklin Roosevelt's promises in times past. Mean time Columbia Broadcasting officials who discovered what was going to happen only ten minutes before it began happening, had gone into a dither. Hastily they found a reason for not broadcasting the GOProgram: Columbia has a rule against broadcasting "electrically transcribed" programs on national networks. They announced that "Senator Vandenberg's Fireside Mystery Chat" had therefore been cancelled. Listeners heard the announcement...
President-elect Wriston married a gracious Vassarette named Ruth Colton Bigelow of Springfield, Mass., has a daughter at Oberlin, a son at Appleton High School. He also has a black cocker spaniel named Robin, a desk exactly like George Washington's, a sizable collection of phonograph records ranging from Gilbert& Sullivan to Bach. He invariably reads while shaving. He will turn up in Providence for the second semester...
...twenties one of the most popular songs in the land was the lugubrious lament of a dispirited convict who wished he had the wings of an angel. Some 5,000,000 copies and phonograph records of The Prisoner's Song were sold. According to a myth as hollow as it was widespread, the composer was a condemned man awaiting execution in the death house of the Missouri or Texas or Oklahoma penitentiary. In Manhattan, around the all-night delicatessens where Broadway song pluggers and publishers gather for gossip and fun, it was always assumed that the composer was Vaudevillian...
...physicists who addressed the Tercentenary Conference of Arts and Sciences. Including the talks of Robert A. Millikan, Arthur Holly Compton, Tullio Levi-Civita, Frank B. Jewett, and many other famous scientist, these records will be added to the Cruft Laboratory, which some times ago started a collection of scientific phonograph records...