Word: phonographically
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Plump, pink-faced, freckled, balding, Kaufman, who as a small boy once played a spurious Russian midget in vaudeville, has portrayed Lazy Dan for Old English Floor Wax, Happy Jim Parsons for Air Conditioning Training Corp., Johnny Prentiss for Gruen Watch Co. He boasts that he has made more phonograph records than any other singer, having worked for 22 companies under ten different names. On the radio he has played as many as twelve characters in one sketch. But until he was tried out for Gaston, he had never attempted a French accent...
...rebirth of the U. S. phonograph-record industry, whose sales climbed from 10,000,000 discs in 1932 to a possible 100,000,000 this year, manufacturers made one remarkable discovery: that people will buy cheap records of good music, even if the records are indifferently performed by anonymous musicians. Last week, on the heels of cheap symphonies for newspaper promotion, a new series of anonymous discs was on sale, the cheapest yet: 29? for a ten-inch disc. The records were issued by Musicraft Records, Inc. of Manhattan...
...Some phonograph records are musical events. Each month TIME notes the noteworthy...
...Leading phonograph record makers startled the industry in August by: 1. Withdrawing all records by German composers. 2. Cutting in two the price of classical records. 3. Calling "Ballad for Americans" Red propaganda. 4. Turning thumbs down on swing music. 5. Putting an $18 radio-phonograph on the market...
Died. Leon Forrest Douglass, 71, millionaire inventor and co-founder of the Victor Talking Machine Company; after a long illness; in San Francisco. Once said to have "done more to abolish peace and quiet than anyone else now living," Douglass gave Edison's phonograph a spring motor, brought its inventor his first cash reward. Once he had his daughter fight an octopus to publicize his underwater camera. Other Douglass inventions: a magnetic torpedo for World War I, the first pay telephone, a device for double reproduction of sound in radio...