Word: network
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...into music, playing clarinet in the Eagle Brass Band which paraded for festivals and funerals. In recent years Bechet has made many great jazz records with special studio bands and only last month he appeared as features star on Esquire's coast-to-coast jazz broadcast over the Blue Network. Bunk Johnson on cornet also played in the old Eagle Band, and by 1914 hen Bechet joined him he was already an old timer, having performed with King Bolden's Band...
Payolas & Weepers. Pluggers, the contact men of the music publishing business, describe their work as "romancing" the bandleaders, crooners, record jockeys and network program directors. Their job is to get new and unknown tunes performed often enough to catch the popular ear and taste. To get their songs played, pluggers may have to bribe, cajole, suffer insults, golf with crooners, take conductors to the beach, keep blues singers in flowers, whiskey or cigarets...
...representative group of Manhattan song pluggers gathers daily in the Gateway Restaurant, a minute's dash from NBC's Radio City studios. Here they compare their own and their rivals' successes in a radio log which lists all network song performances of the night before. After dinner, they catnap in a newsreel theater until the nightspots open. The pluggers spend an hour or so in each of the most popular spots, strategically seated at tables where they can vie with a dozen competitors for the eye and ear of influential bandleaders...
Across the border, warned Congressman Gonzalez, Argentina looked like a country already at war. The railroad to Zapala carried nothing but soldiers and supplies. A network of new military roads led threateningly toward Chile. At Las Lajas, near the frontier, were barracks for an entire division. The region was teeming with ski troops, mountain artillery and airplanes. The local inhabitants were kept in alarm by officially inspired rumors that Chile was about to attack Argentina. This, said Congressman Gonzalez, was the familiar Hitler technique of pretending to be a victim in order to victimize...
...Network announces the election of Phillip Stern '47, as President; Charles Shaw '46, as Technical Director; William Sullivan '45, as Business Manager; and Cliff Wharton '47, as Production Director. Martin Book-span '47, continues as Program Manager...