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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Conceivably, one could extend Estey's ideas into areas of social service, medical experimentation--those varieties of public service which conscientious objectors now fulfill under the label "alternative service." Our present concepts of manpower, when one considers the possible use of men now deferred, seem most unimaginative...

Author: By Stephen C. Clapp, | Title: Bullets and Brains | 3/25/1959 | See Source »

After starting out in the dress business in Philadelphia, Sacks charged into radio and public relations. As A. & R. man (artists and repertory) beginning in 1940, he coralled Sinatra, Shore, Benny Goodman and Harry James for the Columbia label. When he left for RCA ten years later, most of his stable followed him loyally. Later, his duties as NBC vice president in charge of TV programing and talent still consisted largely of coddling performers, listening to their troubles and shrewdly guiding their careers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Legend of Manie | 3/9/1959 | See Source »

...normally staid members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra laid a dress suit on the floor of their dressing room and pinned a label to it reading: "Farewell, European Tour-Thanks, Fritz." Then several players trampled across the suit. Reason for the musicians' fury: an announcement made to the orchestra a few minutes earlier by Conductor Fritz Reiner. "For your own good," Reiner told them, he had canceled the "awful tour" planned for the orchestra this summer by ANTA and the State Department. The players responded with hisses and boos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Thanks, Fritz | 3/9/1959 | See Source »

Oddly enough, the boycott bore a union-made label. As a business agent for the A.F.L.-C.I.O. Textile Workers Union, burly Charles E. Leadman bosses the 2,000-member Local 371 at American Viscose Corp., biggest local employer. "Chuck" Leadman and Plant Manager A. G. McVay teamed up last fall to lead moderates against massive resistance, were prevented from getting the school reopened on an integrated basis by Governor J. Lindsay Almond's school-locking order. Soon after, Leadman was outraged when the Negroes rejected his demands that they postpone their applications. "I had to give...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SOUTH: Union-Made Segregation | 3/2/1959 | See Source »

...course, testified witnesses, Lormar offered certain competitive advantages. While other distributors sold top-label records for 65? apiece, Lormar offered a cut rate of 55?. Eventually buyers discovered that the records had been pirated from genuine big-name platters and counterfeited in Cincinnati down to the color and code numbers of the label. Top hit on the counterfeit parade: You Can Make It If You Try, with 86,000 bogus copies in circulation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: The Jukebox Tune | 3/2/1959 | See Source »

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