Word: recordings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...salability, the Eastman tinting is described as giving scenes ''colors conforming to their emotional content." Two makes of talkies (R.C.A. and Western Electric) have their sound records on the edges of the films. Hitherto, if a film was tinted it interfered with light passing through the sound track, distorted the sound. Experiments were made with tinting only the visual portion of the film. The method was successful, but expensive. Then efforts were bent to securing tints that would not affect the light passing through the sound record. This has been achieved so that there is hardly any perceptible...
Loudly intoned by the press, these astonishing appraisals produced country-wide reverberations. The world's auction room record for a painting was a mere $377,000.* The U. S. record was only $360,000.† The record for a private sale was $750,000.** Even this last figure, in the face of the announced appraisals seemed likely to be surpassed...
Then, while the crowd gazed at each other for ten minutes of increasing bewilderment, the auction proved a fiasco. True, the Crucifixion was sold for $375,000, breaking the U. S. record. But there was no feverish bidding, there were no great names. The picture was quietly repurchased by Sir Joseph Duveen himself. The Madonna and Child went to Leon Schinasi, Manhattan tobacco merchant, for a paltry $125,000. The auctioneer had to face the fact that between the appraisal total and the realized total was a difference...
Hagen's winning score was 292, the same as last year. At the halfway mark (36 holes) Diegel led him by two strokes, 140 to 142, despite a record-smashing round of 67 by Hagen. Diegel had cracked out a 69 himself that afternoon. Next morning he cracked up and had to hit his ball 82 times before holing out at lunch time. Hagen, wind or no wind, dropped back to his steady 75 pace, and held it during the afternoon. Diegel needed a 70 to tie, another 69 to win. He took 77, and dropped behind...
...ever upward, one mile, two miles, three, four, five, six, seven miles. Another 1,000 ft. he climbed into the rarefied air. At 38,418 ft. above sea level, seven cylinder-heads burst from his engine, the life-giving oxygen tube was torn from his lips, one barograph (altitude recorder) was blown to bits, his plane caught fire. All but unconscious from lack of air, like Icarus he plunged down from his eminence. Yet he succeeded in putting out the flames, in coming to earth alive, champion Champion, holder of the world's altitude record...