Word: productive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This approach was familiar to Eleanor Steinert, who has covered the Chicago angles of TIME'S Petrillo stories for the last two years. Her first brush with the boss of the musicians' union was a by-product of the press conference at which he said: "We don't want any victories or any rights. All we want to do is live." Western Union transmitted it as "love," and TIME printed it that way. At a later press conference Petrillo leveled a finger at Miss Steinert and hollered: "There's that gal from TIME magazine that said...
Team members have done much to beat the handicap that poor local conditions have forced on them. Coddled through crises or broken boards and termite riddled underpinnings, the Woburn jump rises stable and strong less than a half an hour from Cambridge, the product of many long hours contributed by club members during the fall...
...foam dribbling down his jowls and wanted him clapped forthwith into a strait jacket. There was a certain irony in this. Petrillo's carnivorous methods of "getting something for the boys" made him the natural foe of the canned-music business, but he was also part and product of it, as much a child of Edison and Marconi as the electric tone arm and the portable radio...
...Product. The world of music had changed radically in the half century since brass bands pumped lugubriously before U.S. saloons and Americans fought mosquitoes at park concerts for the sweet sake of culture. Music was now a product to be seized by machinery, to be packaged, distributed and sold in wholesale lots. Canning and transmitting musical effects was a huge and complicated industry in which the artist, the advertiser, the salesman and the inventor fought ceaselessly for expression and profit. Its impact upon the people of the U.S. and the world was tremendous-it had given them both the Beethoven...
...canned music. The antiquated U.S. copyright laws provide that only the copyright owner shall receive music royalties -ignoring the musician and recording firm, the artificers who put the music into salable form. If a disc jockey and a radio station collect revenue from the commercial use of the product, why not the men who made it? Petrillo was not the first to ask this question, but he was a man with a lever to pry out an answer...