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Word: playing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Frank E. Baker '51, reported on Saturday as the new business manager of the Lampoon, is not the man in the job. It appears that the Funnymen, always eager to play the fools, really elected David Graham '52 to the post, and that Baker holds no office on the "comic" magazine...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Erratum | 12/20/1949 | See Source »

After a conversation with Daniel Shay, investigating agent for the Commonwealth Board of Collegiate Authority, Wallach stated that he had obtained an extension of time for the rearrangement of his complaint against Feeney, in which the new witness will play a leading part...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'New Witness' Is Claimed in Feeney Probe | 12/20/1949 | See Source »

While the best many another U.S. symphony musician can hope for is a 20-week season, the Boston musicians, most of whom also play in the Boston "Pops" and at Tanglewood in the summer, get 49 paychecks a year from the symphony for 47 weeks of work. The size of the checks helps keep them happy too: first desk men make not less than $10,000, not including broadcasting and recording fees; no one gets less than $4,860 in salary, which is well above the A.F.M. scale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: There Will Be Joy | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

After four years of fat competitive salaries, the players had less reason to exult. A few days before the merger, Notre Dame's great end, Leon Hart, observed that he would be willing to play professional football for $25,000 a season. At week's end, Arthur McBride, chief owner of the A.A.C.'s high-stepping Cleveland Browns put the new picture in focus: "Some . . . players who got $10,000 and $12,000 this year will be playing for half that-or less-next season...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: It's Wonderful | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

...Victor last week made a low bow to a competitor whose existence it had pointedly ignored. On display for RCA distributors last week went new radio-phonograph combinations which will play not only RCA's 45 and the standard (78 r.p.m.) record, but Columbia's 33⅓ r.p.m. long-playing record as well. The phonographs will be on sale early next year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETAIL TRADE: Low Bow | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

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