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...Take chances and play it safe, get on the right side of people and knock their heads in if they get in your way, and above all get the breaks," is Clark's formula for the quickest method of raising coin enough to buy mink spats and diamond stickpins...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Milk-Doughnut Tycoon Clark Is Self-Made Man | 12/11/1947 | See Source »

...year in record royalties-but the Taft-Hartley Act outlaws royalties paid to a union. Petrillo is leaving it up to the record companies to find some other way of paying his union off. He has another target too: the disc jockeys who coin fortunes by playing records all day long without paying royalties to either performers or the union. Some record executives like to think that Petrillo is really after the broadcasters, and that the recording ban is only a bluff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Wax War | 11/24/1947 | See Source »

...inventions," which fall somewhere between Rube Goldbergian complexity and a shaggy dog story. (Example: a slot machine "which blows off steam, lights up, whistles, makes five minutes of loud silence when you put a dime in it, eventually returns your coin-it's for giving yourself a tip in a self-service restaurant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Backnagle's Stoop | 11/3/1947 | See Source »

...Soldiers Field Varsity football practice yesterday afternoon, but the squad was running hot. At the end of a soggy but spirited workout which kept the white slippery pigskin whipping through the darkness, Coach Dick Harlow announced that converted tackle Nick Rodis would be acting field captain to call the coin for the Rutgers kickoff tomorrow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rodis to Shoulder Captaincy Chores | 10/31/1947 | See Source »

...When the coin spines at 2 o'clock, it will mark the fifty-first time that the Crimson and the Big Green have met and the first time since 1942 that Dartmouth eleven has played in the Stadium...

Author: By Stephen N. Cady, | Title: Dartmouth Indians Come Out of The Hills With Verdant Hopes For 51st War-Dance | 10/25/1947 | See Source »

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