Word: consulant
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...related record companies, charging conspiracy and discrimination to keep non-BMI music from being heard as often as it should be. Among the 33: Ira (I Got Rhythm] Gershwin. Arthur (Dancing in the Dark] Schwartz, Dorothy (I Can't Give Yon Anything but Love) Fields. Gian-Carlo (The Consul) Menotti. They reckon that they and other non-BMI composers have collectively lost $50 million in royalties in the past decade. Their demand: triple damages ($150 million) and a court order directing broadcasters...
...last, they managed to smuggle two messages to the Italian consul in Budapest. Last summer they were suddenly taken to the camp hospital for fattening and were told they could have their chance to work in Hungary or to return to Italy. They chose Italy's slums...
...China turned to the West for help. Now Communists, schooled in Moscow, rule China. The Kremlin has tried to keep them from any contact with us. An example of this was the arrest of our consul in Mukden in 1947. England and the United States desired to recognize Mao, but this Russian-inspired incident alienated us, as the Kremlin planned," he continued...
Gian-Carlo (The Consul) Menotti, Italian-born composer of eerie operas, was asked in Washington whether he thought composers ought to reap some of the take from jukeboxes. "Unfortunately," he said, "I'm afraid that my music will never get into jukeboxes unless ihe whole country gets neurotic...
After each interception, the British consul in Taipei protests to the Nationalist government. Taipei's invariable reply: "We know nothing about it ... They must be sea guerrillas." The British cry "piracy," but the Nationalists do not even call it a blockade; their phrase is "port closure," which they insist they have the right to enforce, on Ihe grounds that they are still the legal government of China. So far, both sides have avoided a breach out of deference to their common ally, the U.S. The State Department says, "We have no policy in the matter...