Word: victrolas
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...Tenement. Perhaps the book's most appealing episode is the horse-racing fantasy-for Jack Duluoz, like any right-thinking Massachusetts twelve-year-old, is a track addict. In the Duluoz tenement, on dark winter mornings, Jack scribbles out racing forms, plays the call to colors on the Victrola, stages elaborate handicap races with marbles ("I owned that great Repulsion, also personally rode the beast, and trained him . . . also ran the Turf, was Commissioner, Track Handicapper, President of the Racing Association, Secretary of the Treasury...
...junketing Democratic Governor W. Averell Harriman was greeted at the airport by U.S. Ambassador to Italy Clare Boothe Luce. Asked later by newsmen to comment on the Geneva Conference, onetime Ambassador to Russia Harriman gave an old hand's appraisal: "The same old patter comes out of the Victrola ... a certain familiar ring . . . Bulganin's reply [to President Eisenhower's inquiry about international Communism] was exactly the same as the reply I got in Russia 29 years ago . . . We must keep up our guard ... But I am delighted that the Big Four are talking. It will bring...
When Father Finn took a group of boys to New York City in 1918 to form a new choir, O'Malley went along as his assistant director. He spent his spare time at the Metropolitan Opera and his spare cash on Victrola records. On the side he served as choirmaster of St. Gregory's Church, and staged concerts in the grand ballroom of the Waldorf-Astoria. He was just 17 then. "I had a lot of nerve," he admits...
...concerts from Nova Scotia to Mexico. In June 1948, he reported to the studio and settled down in Beverly Hills, where he now lives in a two-story white stucco house with his adoring wife, their children, Colleen, 2, and Elissa, 8 months, his still-doting parents, the ancient Victrola of his childhood and a gold 45-r.p.m. record that RCA Victor presented to him for selling so many of its Vinylite cousins...
...rough during the war, by grinding up salvage GI socks and underwear turned in by the heroes of the late conflict, embedding these in a plastic matrix and coating the whole with a thin coating of superior smooth plastic in much the same fashion as in the old Columbia victrola records. Now I'm not squeamish, and I have great faith in the miracles of modern science, so I'm not disturbed by the fundamental arrangement. (I am told by a friend from Adams House that Irene was utterly horrified when this was revealed to her.) But as a result...