Word: disks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mitch Miller, director of pop music for Columbia Records, got a telephone call last week that made him pull his beard. Musical bootleggers, said his tipster, were copying Rosemary Clooney's (and Columbia's) fast-selling disk Come on-a My House, then peddling it cut rate to distributors under phony Columbia labels...
...spent most of his time relating the hardships of the radio world, "You can't push any ads on a classical show, and places like Wally's (a local jazz emporium) don't want to advertise on it. You can't run classical in the afternoon because people want disk jockeys. At seven in the evening they want adventure shows." Mr. Goldberg finally broke down and admitted that he might play good music somewhere in the 7:30 to 10:00 block. "But nothing heavy like Stravinsky, people just can't take it for a solid hour--we'd have...
...Crimson, on the other hand, took quick advantage of the first Yale penalty: defenseman John White advanced the disk to the Eli blue line, and laced a 70-foot drive into the Bulldog net at 10:40, while Frank Kittredge of Yale was in the penalty box for high sticking...
...station soon gained one of the highest Hooper ratings in this area. But because WBMS has to be self-sufficient, it ran more and more advertisements, which steadily lowered its rating to the point where the station was running at a huge loss. When WBMS made the shift to disk jockey programs, the wail set up by Bostonians was enough to prove the popularity of an all-music station. Former assistant manager John R. Thornton has taken advantage of this to set up a new station, WXHR on the FM band, using the WBMS fiasco as a guide...
...last period, rough defenseman Jeff Coolidge combined with Bray to set up Clasby, who again stickhandled his way through the Andover defense, to score. Less than two minutes later, with Andover one man down, Horween grabbed the disk after a faceoff and went all the way for an unassisted goal...