Word: phonographically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mornings Witnesses spread themselves through the city according to prearranged plans. So efficiently did they space their posses that dazed Detroiters thought the city had been taken by storm. Witnesses wore sandwich signs, brandished placards, sowed handbills and pamphlets everywhere. Phonograph-toting canvassers claimed "hundreds of converts...
...distributor of phonograph music is the humble jukebox, which absorbs some 44% of the output of U. S. popular records, plays them at a nickel a throw in bars, dance dives and lunch counters throughout the U. S. In its simple form, the juke-box is complete with coin slots, colored lights and automatic record-changing mechanism for a stack of twelve to 24 discs. But during the past year, in a few western and midwestern U. S. cities, the juke-box has been menaced by science's onward march. The menace: a chain system of jukeboxes, all wired...
When the American Federation of Musicians elected James Caesar Petrillo its president (TIME, June 24), U. S. radio and phonograph men thought nervously of Chicago. As longtime boss of the Chicago musicians' local, Jimmie Petrillo has nourished a violent and magnificent dislike for anything that keeps his musicians from getting jobs. Or, at least, from getting pay checks...
Chicago was a pioneer with the "standby" system, by which outside union men playing in its radio stations must either join the union local or pay a thumb-twiddling local musician to stand by. Jimmie Petrillo forbade Chicago men to make phonograph records which might be broadcast. He saw to it that political campaign trucks resound with live musicians, not recordings. When a giant panda was to be welcomed by a troop of Chinese Boy Scout buglers, Petrillo demanded that eight union men be hired as well. Italian as were his sympathies, he hit the ceiling when the Italian Consul...
...passionate partisans, the phonograph needle is as bellicausal a topic as that needle of the medieval theologians on which angels might or might not throng to dance. Every variety of phonograph needle -vegetable (fibre, thorn), metal (steel, brass, chromium, etc.), mineral (sapphire) -has had its champions. Meantime, most people keep on buying steel needles. Last year 750,384,450 needles were sold in the U. S. Last week Philco Radio & Television Corp. needled the phonograph industry with its first basic change since electrical reproduction (1925). Philco put on sale a machine ($129.95 to $395) with a built-in needle intended...