Word: caesar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...possible $1,000 fine or one year's imprisonment for violation of the Lea ("anti-Petrillo") bill recently passed by Congress (TIME, April 15). The bill forbids any attempt to compel radio broadcasters to hire more people than they need. Contemptuous of the law of the land, Caesar ruled that Chicago's station WAAF, a one-kilowatt independent, should double its uncomplaining staff of three record librarians. When the station demurred, Caesar informed the three union members that they were henceforth on strike...
Gathering wind, Caesar cast his eyes over the roomful of reporters. "How'm I doin', boys?" he crowed. Without pausing for reply, Caesar then admitted that there is one authority he would obey...
...When Caesar had finished, a photographer asked for a fighting pose. Caesar thrust out a belligerent left, first carefully removing a chunky ring from his chubby little finger...
Obligingly, federal attorneys began an inquiry into the WAAF strike. Caesar departed for Florida...
...Minute Test. Hurok's own musical accomplishment consists in having once played the balalaika badly, which puts him in a class with Caesar Petrillo, who was bad on the trumpet. Hurok lets the public pick his artists. He spends hours in the box office, listening to what price seats customers ask for, to judge what traffic an artist will bear. During intermissions he slips quietly through the crowd, eavesdropping on customer comment. Says he: "When I discover an artist I sit in the audience just like the public. ... If you sit 25 minutes without squirming and your eyes...