Word: readings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...president of the largest local union of professional musicians (30,000 members), I naturally read with great interest your comprehensive review of the state of music in America. The one individual who has made this picture possible is the professional musician, and he is, as you point out, its worst victim. There should be a change in our copyright laws to permit the musician a voice in where recordings and other mechanical reproductions are used, and an equitable share of the profits therefrom...
...Celebration Hall of Cairo University last week 500 delegates from more than 40 countries rallied under a huge banner showing two hands, one light and one dark, clasped around a torch that lit up the outlines of Asia and Africa. A milling throng of students waved a banner that read DOWN WITH THE EISENHOWER DOCTRINE; from the gallery, schoolgirls shouted: "No bases-no pacts -no H-bomb...
...Boasting half a dozen All-Americans to beef them up, the Eastern All-Stars charged into San Francisco for the annual Shrine charity game, ran smack into a squad of Westerners who had not bothered to read their press clippings. Led by Arkansas' Gerald Nesbitt, the West whipped the East...
...Joseph Trickett, professor of management at the University of Santa Clara, and onetime executive: "When you take a man whose work has made him provincial and send him off to Harvard, he sees other men from the entire country with the same problems he faces. It makes him read more, think more, be more savvy...
Lucey commented that he could not give any substantial information about the charges because he did not know more than he had read in the newspapers...