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...awed by the crowd of longhairs around him, Petrillo clapped Sarnoff on the back and cried, "We are the proletariat." Everyone was in high spirits; both the record companies and Petrillo were, happy that they had found a way around the law, so that Petrillo could once again fatten his union's welfare fund with record royalties (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: One for Harry | 12/27/1948 | See Source »

...athletes were coming in all sizes. Also, they were coming in all sorts of conditions, the natural result of summers spent anywhere from Pigalle to the Pampas. One scrawny week has been set aside for the late comers to the House League to fatten into shape before the season begins...

Author: By John Shortlidge, | Title: 200 Don Pads for Football Inter-House League Tourney | 10/6/1948 | See Source »

They liked the theater's proportions. But what the Paris' owners, the French Pathé movie syndicate*, liked about the theater was its dollars, which should fatten Pathé's lean coffers. For Pathé, whose crowing cock once ruled the world's movie roost, was now a scraggly bird...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Feathers for Path | 9/20/1948 | See Source »

...most for their corn, many farmers were planning to increase hog feeding and buy cattle to fatten on corn. But the Bureau of Agricultural Economics did not think this would add to the meat supply-and bring prices down-until late 1949. In fact, said the bureau, meat would be even scarcer this winter, and prices might go even higher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMODITIES: Surplus & Scarcity | 9/13/1948 | See Source »

...Groaner's Friend. In Westville Grove, N.J., Louis Lichtman, who plays music to his 4,000 hogs to help fatten them, announced authoritatively that Bing Crosby and Guy Lombardo have greatest hog appeal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 14, 1948 | 6/14/1948 | See Source »

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