Word: phonographically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Because some U.S. fliers went visiting in Essex, England, a chubby 9-year-old with a prodigious gift for piano-playing arrived in Watertown, Mass, last week. The youngster is blind Jimmy Osborne, who never studied music beyond listening to the BBC and to phonograph records. Now he is going to study at the Perkins Institution for the Blind...
Last week the U.S. plunged headlong into a season of Gershwin such as no composer has ever had before. It premised to outdin by far the boom of Mozart (aided & abetted by the phonograph companies) four years ago on the 150th anniversary of his death, and the 1941 Tin Pan Alley reglorification of Tchaikovsky which finally led to a tune called Everybody Makes Money but Tchaikovsky...
...Ayen in bedraggled St. Germain, France, stands a bright, pink, three-story schoolhouse. In its library are $25,000 worth of books. Its music room has an electric phonograph and a big collection of classical records. Its basement hums with lathes and its upper floors are alive with the clatter of typewriters and sewing machines. Last week the school awarded its first graduation, certificates-to WACs, for their proficiency in beauty culture...
...just as graft investigations by Judge Samuel Seabury and Governor Franklin Roosevelt were getting uncomfortably close to him. Next week Jimmy's $20,000-a-year contract as "impartial Czar" of the cloak-&-suit industry runs out, but he already has another job, the presidency of a new phonograph-record firm. Said he last week to 1,300 fellow cloak-&-suiters dining at the Waldorf-Astoria: "I am not a candidate for mayor. I am on a good payroll now. Please leave me alone...
...armed with a number of phonograph recordings of these sounds, the doctors reported that they will soon be ready for the next step: field tests to determine whether the records will "lure the mosquito to some form of destroying mechanism...