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Word: forli (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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With Congress bearing down and the F.T.C. getting ready to open hearings, the disk jockeys faced a lean future: no more cash off the record, no more palmy free vacations on the fly-now-payola-later plan, and for some, no more jobs.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISK JOCKEYS: Now Don't Cry | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

In Manhattan, Superjock Alan Freed, already fired by WABC radio, lost his second job in two weeks, was sacked by WNEW-TV. Showing up for his final broadcast last week, Freed waded through crowds of sobbing teenagers, comforted them ("Now don't cry"), accepted a bound scroll from a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISK JOCKEYS: Now Don't Cry | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

For the first eleven months no "pusher" approached him. "The record-company guys," he told a TIME correspondent in Detroit last week, "went to the bigger men here. I didn't care because I knew when I was Number One they would come to me. First a guy would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Wages of Spin | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

Silver for Christmas. Clay's view of payola ethics is intricate: "I have never demanded money from a record-company. When a deejay does that, he's dirty rotten. But it is all right for a man to put down $200 and leave a record for a deejay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Wages of Spin | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

Not all companies were satisfied with Clay's code. When they paid him, they wanted to hear their records played. But Clay did not always oblige. Chicago's Chess and Checker record companies, Clay claims, got so mad at him one year that they did not even send...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Wages of Spin | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

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