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Pudgy James Caesar Petrillo, boss of U.S. music, got the first real drubbing of his career. Last week a WLB panel urged that his A.F. of L. musicians be ordered to end their 19-month no-recording strike against R.C.A., Columbia and R.C.A.-Victor. It beat down all his objections with the fury of a kettledrummer in a Wagnerian climax...
...panel, by 2-to-1 vote, ruled that it had no power to compel the giants of the recording industry to pay $500,000 a year direct tribute to Petrillo's treasury (TIME, Oct. 11). Petrillo wants the money put into an unemployed musicians fund-which he alone would administer. Such a system, said the panel dryly, might be acceptable "under proper safeguards...
Boss Petrillo's favorite contention, that "canned music" has caused widespread unemployment among musicians, got harsher treatment. Said the panel flatly: "No present important unemployment of musicians exists. Two union members out of three do not depend on music for a livelihood. The union's criterion, that a member not working full time on music is unemployed, is untenable." Also, the panel concluded after 1,970 pages of testimony, radio and the phonograph record probably have not decreased employment...
Hospital Bound. Charles, leading a strafing attack over the nearby Marshalls, ran into ack-ack. Windshield and instrument panel exploded and more than 200 particles of glass and metal were driven into his face and body. Blinded in one eye and drenched with blood, Charles made a perfect landing on his carrier...
...Association for the game's "man of the year." His Navy trainees had polished off all but two of their nine tough opponents. At the same time (20-odd years after his team-producing heyday at the University of Chicago), 128 coaches on a New York World-Telegram panel hailed him as their outstanding colleague...