Word: petrillos
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Touch of Sadness. But both crowd and committee were slightly nonplussed when Petrillo sat down in the bright glare of the lights. He was dressed as quietly as a banker and he smiled a happy smile, like a man back at last among his dearest friends...
...Petrillo spoke quietly and with just a touch of sadness. "If they do, I hope they will treat their musicians a lot better than American companies treated our musicians...
After that Petrillo took over the hearing. At times he was a frankly bewildered man, asking the committee's advice and guidance. "Are we right, or are we wrong? We don't know. We have asked the industry what is the future of television. They tell me, 'Jim, we don't know...
...Laughter. He was reassuring. He hinted strongly that he could reach a peaceful settlement in his present negotiations with the radio networks. FM? Television? He was "keeping an open mind on those questions." He made it plain that James Caesar Petrillo had a heart which beat for the public. He and his musicians were perfectly willing to make records for home phonographs; they refused only because 20% of the product was used by radio stations and jukeboxes without payment of royalties to the musician or the union...
...answers set off uproarious waves of laughter. At one point he complained that musicians were too poor even to patronize the nightclubs in which they played. Illinois Republican Thomas L. Owens quoted back a statement of President Harry Truman's that everybody had a lot of spending money. Petrillo beamed. "I don't contradict the President," he said. "After all, as a piano player, he's a potential member of the union...