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...slips to the guy or doll who can make one. Performers, writers and publishers and their song pluggers pass payola to A & R (artists and repertory) chiefs, who decide what the record companies will record; the companies, in turn, spread payola around to selected disk jockeys. If the custom is fully understood in the trade, it is rarely discussed outside it. But last week Singer Frank Sinatra fired a telegram from Hollywood (a town with its own brand of payola) to Florida's Senator George A. Smathers of the Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee, accusing Columbia Records' bearded...
AIRLINE PASSENGERS will get a wider choice of fares and flight services, if CAB approves examiners' recommendation. United Air Lines plans a fourth type of service, "custom coach," pegged between first-class and cut-rate (day and night) coach flights, which would match flight times of best first-class flights but stand lower in passenger "extras" and price...
...universal custom for women to conceal their ages, but to deny two husbands and two kids-that takes the cake...
True to its annual custom, the Miami News (circ. 149,269) put together its seasonal hurricane feature with the standard warnings about venturing into the wind, the usual list of provisions for the pantry, some familiar reminiscences of the big hurricane of 1926-and a two-page color map on which the reader could plot the course of the big blows. It was old stuff to the men in the city room; no one paid much attention. When the early printed Sunday magazine came off the press, Chief Photographer Ed Pierce looked at the map and, musing about his vacation...
...more venturesome man than some of his predecessors at Leipzig. After Bach's death, says the 28th cantor of the 15th, his music was almost completely forgotten until Mendelssohn discovered and revived it 75 years later. By that time the thread of succession was broken (Bach, in the custom of his time, rarely wrote into his scores any indications of tempo or dynamics). But Cantor Thomas believes that performance is more important than tradition. "Musicologists are constantly making new discoveries," he says. "We can only get a just interpretation by assimilating all this material-and even then...