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...other men made their marks on the year, Sidney Hillman of the C.I.O. and James Caesar Petrillo of the Musician's Union. Whether or not it decided the election, Hillman's Political Action Committee brought labor closer to the balance of power in national politics than it had ever been before. Petrillo, after successfully defying the War Labor Board and the President of the U.S., rammed home the revolutionary principle of royalties paid by corporations directly to union treasuries...
...quality of the new records will be higher than ever, thanks to the end of the wartime shellac shortage. But anything like a return to 1942 production figures-when Victor alone produced 59,000,000 records-is out of the world for the duration. Even omnipotent Boss Petrillo could not solve the manpower shortage...
...four and a half years Sergei Koussevitzky's Boston Symphony could make no recordings-first because it did not belong to James Caesar Petrillo's musicians' union, and then because it did. Last week, with the recording ban finally lifted (TIME, Nov. 20) and the U.S. record-buying public about to go on a shopping spree, Koussevitzky & Co. were hard at work on a brand-new version of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. Keeping pace, the Philadelphia Orchestra was waxing Strauss's Death and Transfiguration, Beethoven's Seventh and Dvorak's New World symphonies...
About 24 hours after Victor and Columbia signed on Boss Petrillo's dotted line, they had their recording turntables spinning. The first big-company recording since 1942 was Vaughn Monroe's The Trolley Song, on 160,000 Victor discs. Columbia followed with Harry James's The Love I Long For and 500,000 copies of White Christmas, sung by Frank Sinatra. On the classical front, Conductor Andre Kostelanetz got there first with recordings of the Schubert and Bach-Gounod Ave Marias (Columbia); runner-up was Pianist José Iturbi's recording of Morton Gould...
...Caesar Petrillo was not a graceful winner. The companies, he said, had resorted to "bitterness, injustice, trickery and reactionism which would do justice to slaveowners"; they had engaged in a "vile, indecent, malicious and filthy campaign of libel, slander and vilification." Crowed the Czar: "Honesty and fairness had now triumphed over falsity and fraud. ... If they, the companies, fail to change [their past course], the A.F.M. will not hesitate to break off relations and leave them to die by their own nefarious schemes...