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First Gravedigger. Once ashore, he found an idle generator close to the uncertain fighting, hooked on and recorded what he saw. The recorder, with its magnetized spool of wire, survived the blast of a Jap bomb ten yards away. Then, being a Marine before he was a correspondent, Maypole went to work digging graves. He dug them all day. Next morning he recorded interviews with weary Marines resting from a night's fighting in the bush...
...battlefronts nearer home. With this device the radioman makes his comments into a hand microphone, which would also pick up surrounding battle sounds. The microphone actuates an electromagnet which records the sounds on a thin wire moving through it (by magnetically rearranging the molecular structure of the wire). The spool of wire, loaded with its temporary magnetic record, can then be sent away and "played back'' for radio broadcasting or transcription disk recording...
...wonderfully cheerful. The Air Commander . . . wears his cigar and chooses his tactics with a jaunty air. The colonels who command Marine regiments and battalions lie in coral-crusted mud with their men, dodge the soprano-chattering Jap 25-caliber guns. . . . A private, a wire-stringer, carried a heavy steel spool of telephone wire eight miles up & down 60° slopes. . . . There are great squads of anonymous heroes. . . . Perhaps the flyers are the greatest. They have made a record equal to anything aerial anywhere...
...Coats that are peg-topped or spool-shaped...
...urge for music and lack of money for an instrument moved Felix, as a boy, to make himself a banjo strung with J. & P. Coats spool thread. A Coats Co. stockholder, flood-bound at the Alley house, was so impressed by this contraption that he sent Felix a fine store banjo and persuaded the company to use a picture of a barefoot, banjo-playing boy as a trademark. At 16 Felix also wrote a ballad, Kidder Cole, which became famous...