Word: watches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Victor each proclaim that its record is the best ever conceived by man. Meanwhile, smaller record companies are making their choice. Capital has joined Victor; and Mercury, Cetra, and Concert Hall have gone along with Columbia. Decca, a key company, has decided to stand by for the present and watch its competitors slug...
Victor and Columbia developed their systems simultaneously. Each offered its process to the other, but neither would give in, preferring to carry the battle to the field of sales. Now, as the companies maneuver with new prices and improving quality, most consumrs stand by and watch, refusing to buy what may soon be obsolete. Until an industry agreement on how these new systems should be used (such as using the Columbia system for classical records and the Victor system for popular) is reached, the present confusion will continue for both manufacturer and consumer...
TIME, in a review of my Watch the North Wind Rise [March 28], states that I wrote of Christ...
...Hank Martin, a young Connecticut blacksmith, Bing gets knocked on the head one stormy night at the turn of the century and wakes up in 528 A.D. at the point of an Arthurian lance. To save himself from the stake, he has only a pocketful of modern matches, a watch crystal, a hefty magnet and an almanac. This, of course, is where the fun should begin. But it doesn't. Bing riffles through his wonder-working stunts, jousts with Sir Launcelot (Henry Wilcox-son) and rescues King Arthur's beautiful niece (Rhonda Fleming) with his tongue conspicuously...
Today's race will be a confusing one to watch. Two of the shells, the Crimson's and MIT's, that will start at the Charles Street Bridge (the subway bridge) have the same colors, grey and red. All three crews will wear similar jerseys. Harvard will row in white T-shirts with crimson numerals on them and MIT and Princeton will have orange numerals on their T-shirts. But that's all right, the Crimson Key intends to broadcast the race, which will end by the MIT boat house near the Cottage Farm Bridge, through londspeakers posted along...