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Says Anor about her father: he has "a marverlas degestion," laughs at his own jokes, "is very fond of taking a bath as his exercise," can't write without smoking. His hobbies are playing with candle wax, coloring picture books, "smoking even...
Some ten years after the late Thomas Alva Edison first recorded the human voice* on tinfoil in 1877, he sent the foregoing jingly "phonogram," on a wax cylinder, to Colonel George E. Gouraud in London...
...dapper, delirious Catalonian placed in one window an old-fashioned bathtub lined with black Persian lamb and filled with water, from which three wax arms arose holding mirrors. Pensive before the tub stood a wax mannequin clothed in green feathers, with long, bright red hair. On the walls, upholstered in purple, small mirrors were fixed here and there, and narcissism was further indicated by narcissuses floating...
Biding his time, he is working on another application of his system, an invasion of the phonograph field. Capable of a wider fidelity range than wax recordings, film sound tracks suffer virtually no deterioration, since they are played back by a light ray, not by a needle. Engineer Miller plans a sound-track phonograph containing a changeable supply of recordings that may be selected and played just as a button-tuner radio is operated. Estimated phonograph price range: $150 to $3,000. Estimated cost of recordings: about...
journalism are the Sauk Centre Heralds, Archbold Buckeyes, and Oologah Oozings that deliver homey news to 17,000,000 small-town and rural Americans. In the U. S. newspaper business, country weeklies of their kind are a big bright spot. While the urban dailies wane, the rural weeklies wax. Since 1929 they have gained in numbers,* circulation and advertising lineage, while the daily group has fallen...