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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...
Record collectors were last week beginning to find many of the most desirable disks harder & harder to get. Many albums of the highest musical value had disappeared entirely from the market. The reason for the shortage was not James Caesar Petrillo's recording ban (TIME, June 22, 1942). It was a combination of wartime circumstances hitting the recording industry a mighty wallop...
Leaving his office late (often at 6 instead of the peacetime 5 p.m.), the President rarely stops now for a swim. His personal wants are attended by Prettyman, a retired Negro sergeant who combines the courtesy of his race with the discipline of an old Army man, and Caesar, a strapping Filipino. After dinner (a few friends), the President may have a movie shown (Army and Navy films have priority), read reports or an occasional mystery story, or dictate to handsome Grace Tully or pretty Dorothy Jones Brady until bedtime. He usually gets to bed-except when Churchill is visiting...
...Atonement. In Philadelphia, Julius Caesar explained to a judge that he had registered for the draft under two other names, in the desperate hope of avoiding wisecracks. He got a one-day prison sentence...
...confused with his younger brother, Caesar James Petrillo, of Chicago, leader of a CBS dance band...