Word: phonographic
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...Chicago, Magnavox Co. showed off a mass-produced, high-fidelity phonograph with four speakers. Capable of reproducing sounds up to 12,000 cycles (twice the range of most mass-produced sets), Magnasonic has a three-speed record changer and an eight-tube amplifier-preamplifier mounted in a mahogany console cabinet. Price: about...
Homer Earl Capehart, the onetime phonograph maker from Indianapolis, was for years a target for the bitter sneers of liberals and laborites from both major parties. Last week the old critics were cheering Homer Capehart while ranged against him were such old-time friends as the National Association of Manufacturers and Robert Alphonso Taft. The issue, that brought about this strange shift of forces: Republican Senator Capehart's bill to provide standby controls on prices, wages and rents...
...market. To help pay his costs, while he waits for binaural buyers to swell to the proportions of a full-blooded carriage trade, Cook has now spun music from some of his binaural tapes on to four standard, 10-in. LPs which can be played on any LP phonograph...
...best humor and bitterest protest. There was a carved wooden head festooned with watchworks, metric rule and alligator wallet, a sickly pink portrait of a man with blotched face and four combs for hair, a gutter collage of torn ticket stubs, discarded buttons, hairpins and old newspapers. A phonograph beeped out Dada sounds, a metronome with a staring eye pasted to the blade ticked away methodically, and every visitor had to pass Marcel Duchamp's own contribution to the show: a porcelain urinal over the doorway decorated with a sprig of mistletoe...
...active. At a Kremlin party in 1946, drinking Brüderschaft with Tito, he shouted: "There's still strength in me," and slipping his hands under bulky Tito's armpits, lifted him off the floor three times to the beat of a Russian folk melody on the phonograph...