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After a reshuffle, BMI distributed $150,-ooo for radio performances alone to over 1,000 publishers and composers. For radio sheet music and mechanical rights it sent $6,000 apiece to its highest paid trio-Joan Whitney, Hy Zaret & Alex Kramer-who are responsible for So You're the One, It All Comes Back to Me Now and My Sister and I. For You Walked By, Songbirds Bernie Wayne and Ben Raleigh picked up $4,000 each. Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. and Kenrick Sparrow drew $81.84 apiece for The Rest of My Life...
...great hush-hush attended the proceedings where Ovakimian was held for $25,-ooo bail. When the U.S. attorney said that Ovakimian was a key figure in the Government's spy investigations, an FBI man shushed him in alarm. Ovakimian growled at the Soviet consul general, who treated him with vast respect (and posted a $25,000 bond with $50 and $100 bills), identified himself first as a buyer for Amtorg Trading Corp., next as representative of the "chemical trust," last as an agent of "the Commissariat." Around the Amtorg office he was always a feared and mysterious figure...
...British-American companies who refine Government-owned Netherlands East Indies oil finally renewed their contracts with Japan, following a, November agreement which raised Japanese purchases from a basis of 494,000 to 1,800,-ooo tons a year. In case of war the East Indies has the right to allocate such oil. Last week it was still fueling the Japanese Army and Navy...
Last week Reader's Digest reported a thriving Latin-American friendship: Current print order of Selecciones del Reader's Digest is 350,000, biggest of Spanish-language magazines. Of these, about 255,-ooo will go to South American newsstands, 75,000 to subscribers, about 20,000 to Spanish classes in U.S. high schools and colleges...
...Bart Arkell started with $10,-ooo, less than ten employes and an idea that the public would buy hickory-cured ham - his only product at the start. Be fore he eased off he had pushed Beech-Nut to No. 3 place in the U.S. confectionery industry, built its assets to $22,800,000 without a cent of debt...