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...last three of his 41 years he had been practically everything else-including fast shuffles as a lifeguard, paint salesman and professional football player. His first radio job was as an announcer on Philadelphia's WCAU, a $55-a-week steppingstone to a far fatter income as a sports and special-events broadcaster...
...Fatter Scores. The New York Sun's enterprising sport editor looked up Ivy League football scores of 20 years ago, and matching them against 1948's, discovered that they had jumped 75%. Football's controversial free-substitution rule, allowing coaches to march armies of offensive & defensive specialists in & out at will, had put touchdown-making on a production line (TIME, Nov. 22). Everyone agreed that the rule favored teams with manpower, and took the game away from all-round stars. But there seemed to be little chance of a change in the rules...
Jimmy Petrillo's lawyer had gotten together with RCA Boss David Sarnoff, representing the record makers. The compromise was simple: the union musicians relaxed their demands for royalties on all records sold since the Jan. i ban, in return for fatter royalties to come when the presses start cutting records. The new rates: 1% of the retail price of all records selling under $1 and a "slight increase" in royalties on records costing more than...
More for Stockholders. The boom was going as strong as ever; the Federal Reserve Board reported that September production had been the same as in August, just short of the postwar peak. In the reports that began pouring in last week, many third-quarter earnings proved to be much fatter than expected (example: General Electric's $29.2 million was up 49% from the similar 1947 quarter). And joyful shareholders cashed in. Earnings were so good for some 21 corporations that they declared extra dividends. Republic Steel, with its earnings ($12.8 million) more than doubled, declared extra dividends in both...
...Billy left St. Louis for a fat offer from the "Three Steamshovels," as Boston calls the rich contractors who own the Braves. The team jumped from sixth place to fourth, then to third last year. The delighted Steamshovels tore up Billy's old contract, gave him an even fatter one (his present salary...