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...citizens, it grates on the ears of James Caesar Petrillo, new boss of the American Federation of Musicians. For the Boston Symphony is the only big nonunion orchestra in the U. S. Because of the A. F. of M. hold on the radio chains, the Boston Symphony has not broadcast in more than a year. Last fortnight tough Boss Petrillo forbade RCA Victor to make any more Boston Symphony recordings. "They're through," explained Mr. Petrillo. "We've taken them off the radio and off the records...
Claimant Almazán, "vacationing" in Havana since the election, announced in a broadcast that he would return to Mexico when the time was ripe for assuming the Presidency. Then he embarked for Guatemala where, his followers announced, he would set up revolutionary headquarters in "an anti-Communist atmosphere." There he was also certain of the good will of Napoleonesque President-Dictator Jorge Ubico, who once bragged that with 300,000 trained troops he could invade and conquer the whole of sprawling Mexico. No friend of the Cardenas regime, Dictator Ubico has treated Mexican labor agitators to firing squads...
Last week 675 bibulous but well-behaved delegates of the National Association of Broadcasters gathered in San Francisco. Less timorous than usual, the N.A.B.-ers spoke freely and frankly, singled out ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers) as the industry's No. 1 problem. To ASCAP, which controls the performing rights to most copyright music, U. S. broadcasters paid $4,300,000 in royalties last year. Denouncing ASCAP as a monopoly, the conventioneers whooped it up for Broadcast Music Inc., the rival outfit N.A.B. recently organized. Loudly cheered was Delegate Sam Rosenbaum of Philadelphia's WFIL...
Aside from political and religious taboos, Mexico's 103 licensed stations can arrange programs to suit their taste so long as 25% of the music they broadcast is native in composition. Of the 19 major stations concentrated in the Federal District 16 are privately owned. Leaving uplift to the seven Government stations, politics to XEFO, they apply themselves diligently to making their programs artistic successes. Outstanding among them are stations XEW, powered by 100,000 watts, and XEB, which is planning to step up its plant from 20,000 watts to 250,000 watts. (Biggest U. S. stations...
...audience. No "Applause" and "Silence" signs interfere with the fun at these clambakes. Studio spectators tolerate no interference with their right to cheer or boo. Like all Mexicans, they delight in amateur programs. Favorite among gong shows is one sponsored by Bristol-Myers (Sal Hepatica, Ipana) which has been broadcast from XEW every Thursday night for five years. Presided over by a glum, bald, dead-pan wag named Julio Zetina, the Bristol-Myers program is riotously spontaneous, with everyone from studio technicians to station announcers taking part...