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...Cambridge Rent Control Board oversees 14,000 area rental units. It's despised by people on both sides of the rent control issue. One woman, 78-year-old Helen Petrillo, has even maintained that her husband's experience with the board caused his fatal heart attack...
...Petrillo says her family's problems with the rent board began after their daughter's house burned down...
...very rough experience," Petrillo says. "(My husband's) heart attack was a result of the stress from the hearings. It was just too much...
From the day in late 1942 when Spike Jones & His City Slickers stormed the charts with Der Feuhrer's Face, they were the official naughty boys of music. They slowed down when Musicians Union boss James V. Petrillo imposed a two- year ban on union members' making records, but they hit the top spot in late '44, when their impudent version of Cocktails for Two sold two million records. Four years later, the holiday jape All I Want for Christmas (My Two Front Teeth) sold 1.5 million copies in six weeks. Jones cinched his renown with a high-rated radio...
...push a law firm's overhead to 60% of its annual income. Attorneys' fees, lawyers argue, have only kept pace with inflation. One result: clients of such firms tend to be those who can pay the price. "It's like going to the doctor," says Alan Petrillo of the New York State Bar Association. "If I go to see a specialist, I expect to pay more." Adds Grutman: "The pressures are colossal. I say to my clients that I give them slices of my life for which they can never repay...