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...Summary: HARVARD (48) gls. fls. pts. Petrillo, rf 1 1 3 Gabler 1 1 3 Rockwell, lf 4 8 16 Smith 3 2 8 Prior, c 1 3 5 Gannon, lg 3 0 6 McCurdy 1 0 2 Covey, rg 2 1 5 Crosby 0 0 0 Davis 0 0 0 Totals...
...Crimson, Coach Barclay will send out center Bill Prior and Johnny Rockwell together up front along with Pete Petrillo. Chip Gannon and Dick Covey will start at the guards. "Prior will cover Kaftan," Barclay hopefully reported yesterday, "and either Gannon or Covey will guard Cousy...
...Holy Night and 0 Little Town of Bethlehem, the U.S. last week was hearing a new kind of Christmas carol-the daffy, bell-ringing, horn-honking, falsetto-voiced Spike Jones kind. Out only six weeks, a new record by Spike Jones & his City Slickers (recorded in 1947, before the Petrillo ban) was already sixth on the hit parade. Its title: All I Want for Christmas (Is My Two Front Teeth...
Shortly before 5, an hour & a half late, a stumpy little figure in dove grey hat and black overcoat came through the frosted glass doors from the street. Flanked by his lawyer and RCA's David Sarnoff, J. Caesar Petrillo, boss of the union musicians, had arrived...
Pretending to be awed by the crowd of longhairs around him, Petrillo clapped Sarnoff on the back and cried, "We are the proletariat." Everyone was in high spirits; both the record companies and Petrillo were, happy that they had found a way around the law, so that Petrillo could once again fatten his union's welfare fund with record royalties (TIME...