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This news was so calamitous to phonograph makers and record sellers that it threatened to drown out the joyful celebrating over the end of James C. Petrillo's ban* on recordings (see Music). Said one Chicago radio executive: "It raises chaos in the entire industry, just as a change in rail gauges would do to railroads...
...settlement left both sides where they stood a year ago, when Petrillo charged that canned music from jukeboxes and radio stations was threatening the livelihood of his musicians. He then invoked the ban. But he will do little better now. Record makers will pay royalties of between 1% and 2½% a record into the musicians' welfare fund, about the same as before. Estimated royalties: $2,000,000 a year. The peace pact was tentatively drawn two months ago. It was held up to make sure that it did not violate the Taft-Hartley Act, which bans the paying...
...Smith, Bill Prior, and Cliff Crosby are the other definite starters. If Crosby plays forward, Chip Gannon will team with McCurdy, but if he starts at guard, forward Pete Petrillo will line up for the opening tapoff. Lloyd Harper's freshmen play their Trinity counterparts in a preliminary game...
...Harvard summaries: G F TP Gannon, f 1 3 5 Smith, f 4 1 9 Rockwell, f 0 3 3 Covey, f 1 1 3 Prior, c 8 7 23 Davis, g 1 0 2 Crosby, g 2 2 6 Petrillo, g 0 0 0 McCurdy, g 8 1 17 Gabler...
Captain Chip Gannon will start at guard and high Bill Prior will jump at center. Ed Smith and Pete Petrillo will flank Prior and the other guard will be Cliff Crosby...