Word: petrillo
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...Chicago one day last week, James Caesar Petrillo, 66, called in the press. He scurried nimbly behind the gleaming 8-ft. walnut desk (''the biggest damn desk I could find at Marshall Field's"), flung himself down in the swivel chair and surveyed the crowded office with snapping blue eyes. "You gotta fight like hell to get up." he said, "then it's goddam tough...
Calling the Tune. The son of a Chicago sewer digger, Petrillo ''went into the union business" fulltime at 23 after he had failed to make an earning go of playing the trumpet ("If there was 14 trumpets in the band, I was the 14th trumpet"). When he hit the top, he called the tune: nobody, from Liberace to Rubinstein, it turned out. could play an instrument for pay in the U.S. without his consent. "What's the difference," he demanded, "between Heifetz and a fiddler in a tavern?" Once he decided to give a concert honoring Chicago...
...never get anybody to work on Sunday." Producer James Colligan agreed to record the show in advance on Ampex visual tape. Just before rehearsals began, a piano arrived from Kansas City; it was the one given to Truman in the White House by James C. Petrillo and his American Federation of Musicians. Truman decreed happily that it would have to appear in the opening shot. "Mr. President," said Director Tim Kiley, "the script calls for us to open in the reading room." Truman grinned. "Oh, they'll change that," he said. They...
...Henry Petrillo, a veteran of 27 years service, adds that the University is sometimes "too fair," and gives employees "too many extra chances...
...Instituted by Music Czar James C. Petrillo in a campaign to force radio stations, bars and restaurants to employ members of the American Federation of Musicians...