Word: tuning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...world's biggest jukebox maker. Three years ago Seeburg gave mankind the 200-selection machine. This year the sound in Seeburg's gaudy new juke is stereophonic. To the jukebox industry, the new sound is only a little newer than the two young men who call the tune for Seeburg: President Delbert W. Coleman and Board Chairman Herbert J. Siegel. The corporation (fiscal 1958 sales: about $25 million) makes not only jukeboxes but most of Western Union's facsimile equipment, plus key electronic components for the Nike and Sidewinder missiles. Two years ago, at the ripe ages...
...time when the glass broke in 1914 and the killing four-year frost came in. Her personal story is romantic enough to make Ouida-lady laureate of the plush paradise-blush for modesty. It is offset by the tough self-knowledge of an aristocracy that called a pretty fast tune but was prepared to pay a stiff price for the piper. One-fourth of the book is occupied by the war diaries and letters of Alfred Duff Cooper, an infantry officer in France. After censoring a letter home from a soldier, he recorded that the man had written...
...harriers' second meet on their new course at Franklin Park, the U. of Mass. Redmen should prove little more than a mid-week tune-up for a tougher Ivy League contest with Dartmouth this Friday...
...tumult and the shouting and the innumerable suits and countersuits in the law courts waned, so did Marie Stopes's sense of scientific precision. She got a few weird ideas about how the marriage bed should be placed (always in a north-south direction, "in tune with magnetic currents"). Last winter she became ill, attributed it vaguely to "radioactivity in the atmosphere." Last week, widowed since 1949, she died in Surrey...
...public is this public medicine that even healthy Alaskans from Barrow to Kenai tune in their radios to little else. For titillation, they say, professional entertainment hardly compares. One schoolteacher-nurse's wife, forced to listen during dinner, queasily agrees: "If you've never listened to symptoms while eating chocolate pie, you haven't lived...