Word: phonographic
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...face and a pencil-line mustache. When I called, he was wearing a pale green woolen sport shirt, brown tie, brown trousers and shoes. In a corner of his small living room were his typewriter and a table piled with pamphlets and books. In another corner was a radio-phonograph with a fair-sized collection of classical records. This room opens into a combined bedroom and studio. On the wall was a large painting of Arcand in a brown shirt. A crucifix was beside...
Light-Fingered. In Des Moines, Ann Baity admitted to awestruck police that she had shoplifted a radio-phonograph and a wardrobe trunk...
Vittorio Abbati, a perfume salesman, had always wanted to lead a symphony orchestra. He spent nearly all he could save on phonograph records. At 52, he owned 1,500. For 15 years, standing on a leopard skin in front of his gramophone, he would wave a baton at an orchestra that wasn't there. Eyes closed, jaws set, he would signal with palm upraised to the imaginary brasses, pout at the piccolos, bend to the cellos. He knew the scores of several symphonies by heart...
...musical child, there is a picture-drum phonograph for as low as $9.44. For railroaders, Lionel has a remote-control milkman who delivers cans from a car. For builders, there is a construction set whose aluminum rods and plates can be clipped together into towers, windmills, etc. The carriage-trade ultimate is a British import: a $54.50 horse whose springs, under the weight of the body, will buck and carry a rider across a room...
...Washington last summer, before a House Labor subcommittee, James Caesar Petrillo was asked if he thought that Thomas A. Edison had done a disservice to humanity by inventing the phonograph. "Not to humanity," piped Petrillo, "but to musicians...