Word: czars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...February 1917, the Russian people, without any help from Lenin, made a revolution that overthrew the Czar, freed political prisoners, speech and press, and organized the first and last free election in Russia's history. The Russians knew what they wanted, but Lenin knew better. A Lenin dictum was: "The people themselves do not know what is good or bad for them...
Instruments of Destruction. Czar Petrillo's aim as a union leader was understandable: he wants to keep his union big and his income fat.* Actually, Petrillo's union is big and rich only because he has been able to keep it heavily featherbedded. Of the 216,000 members, only about 35,000 are full-time professionals; about twice as many are part-timers who, says Petrillo, "are not quite making a living at it." But more than half are onetime musicians who, like Petrillo, have put aside their instruments and make their living in other occupations...
Instruments of Business. This time the little Czar's antagonists had seen him coming. The $250,000,000-a-year recording industry has been working overtime in recent weeks to pile up backlogs; there were trade estimates that some companies had built up a supply of unissued records for two or three years, that at least a year's supply of new popular tunes was already transcribed in Hollywood cinema libraries. And there was nothing to prevent repressing from old master records...
Since Davis Cuppers Kramer and Schroeder plan to join up with the pros before the year is ended, Pancho at 19 is obviously a rising amateur who bears watching. Long out of favor with Southern California's amateur tennis czar Perry Jones because he wouldn't stay in school (TIME, May 19), Bad Boy Pancho is now behaving himself. As a result, he no longer has to play on public courts, enjoys the luxury of the swank private tennis clubs that Jones controls...
Hospitalized: Cinema Czar Eric A. Johnston, 50; for inflammation in the elbow joint; in Washington...