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...Disk jockeys at Eliot House will have a new place to spin platters when workmen get through current alterations financed from the University grant of $6000 for House improvements. A record storage room is being created out of a closet in the rear of the Library, while nearby a sound proofed room will provide sufficient quiet for disk enthusiasts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eliot Utilizes Grant of $6000 On New Record, Music Rooms | 8/5/1947 | See Source »

...meteorologist in charge of the U.S. Weather Bureau at Louisville, Ky., reported a strange orange light rolling across the southern night. Idaho's Lieutenant Governor Donald S. Whitehead saw a whole flock of broody bright objects sitting motionless in the midday sky. A woman in Texas saw a disk "as big as a washtub" dive, then shoot violently upward. In New Mexico, a man chased a falling disk up a canyon, found it was a five-by-eight-foot piece of tinfoil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PEOPLE: The Somethings | 7/14/1947 | See Source »

...being paid, and sometimes claimed reward money for remains which were not those of U.S. soldiers. Most graves were found through the patient questioning of local natives. One body was traced through the discovery of a short-snorter bill, another after quizzing a woman who wore an identification disk as an ornament, several through coolies who were found wearing shirts of parachute nylon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: The Gleaners | 4/14/1947 | See Source »

Copey will make his traditional Christmas reading to undergraduates for the first time in five years from a plastic disk tonight at 8:30 o'clock as the Crimson Network presents a half-hour transcription of a recital by now-legendary Charles Townsend Copeland '82, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, emeritus...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Copey Comes Back Tonight on Network | 12/18/1946 | See Source »

...generally works this way: when one of our correspondents has written the story we asked him to get, he turns it over to a professional talker who chants it as fast as he can into a radio transmitter. At this end we record his words on film, disk or wire recorders from which the story is transcribed for the editorial department...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Sep. 30, 1946 | 9/30/1946 | See Source »

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