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Songwriters' Case. The accusations brought in unsworn testimony by the ASCAPotentates: 1) BMI (which is owned by 600 broadcasters, including all major networks) owns or subsidizes more than 1,000 music publishers and through them has influence over rising entertainers; 2) broadcasters also have a heavy finger in the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Sour Notes in the Courtroom | 10/1/1956 | See Source »

The First Rumblings. Presumably, the lesson of The Early Churchills is how Nobodies may become Somebodies if they have the right stuff in them. The very early Churchills were so obscure that Author Rowse dispatches five centuries of them in eight pages. One such was apparently a plain 12th century...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Blacksmith to Blenheim | 10/1/1956 | See Source »

Yet the film, as a film, is one of the industry's best. Visually, it could scarcely be improved. The Technicolor camera sweeps through Palladian palaces and country estates and catches pleasant fragments of the earthly paradise inhabited by Russia's landed gentry-the balls and hunts, the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Sep. 10, 1956 | 9/10/1956 | See Source »

Only Caleb, the family's proud and promising eldest son, hears a kind of call to freedom in the court's ruling. But he gets it garbled, comes to think of it as a call to arms and, in the book's least effective chapters, answers it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tragedy out of the News | 9/10/1956 | See Source »

Pat Boone, 22, was just another hillbilly singer from Nashville 18 months ago. Today, nobody who hears him in person ever hears the first or last few robust notes-they are always drowned in squeals of bobby-sox delight. Boone simply opened his mouth and sang when he was ten...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Pop Crop on Top, Sep. 3, 1956 | 9/3/1956 | See Source »

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