Word: record
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...want to be in business tomorrow, you better go today and purchase your records at Lormar." That, testified a witness at last week's Senate McClellan committee hearings into jukebox racketeering, was the slogan of Chicago's Lormar Distributing Co.-and not even Madison Avenue could have sharpened its message. Chicago jukebox operators, anxious to stay 1) healthy and 2) in business, bombarded Lormar with orders; a rival wholesale record firm in one year lost $800,000, or 90% of its trade. Principal reason: Lormar's was the property of Charles ("Chuck") English, a Chicago hoodlum...
...strong were Chicago mobsters in the jukebox trade that they even pushed certain singers. Record Distributor Ted Sipiora said that he was once ordered to stock Crooner Tommy Leonetti's newest record. Protested Sipiora: "It isn't good enough to get on the boxes." As his caller talked, he fingered and tossed "what we felt was a bullet," and said: "These things can be dangerous. They penetrate flesh." Soon afterward, said Distributor Sipiora, he began getting calls for the Leonetti record from operators who had heard the same sales pitch...
...years the Chicago Black Hawks piled up the sorriest record of any team in major-league hockey-a game played almost exclusively by Canadians living in or visiting the U.S. in pursuit of their trade.*In all that time, the Black Hawks managed to finish as high as third only once, wound up dead last in nine of the past twelve seasons. But this year everything suddenly changed. To the astonishment of their most devoted supporters, the revitalized Hawks are second in the National Hockey League standings...
...World indoor track and field records took a wholesale battering at the National A.A.U. championships in New York City's Madison Square Garden. Boston University's High Jumper John Thomas, whose capabilities seem limitless, cleared 7 ft. 1¼ in.-the highest jump in history, indoors or out. Ron Delany, of Villanova and Ireland, who runs to win and no more, got such pressure from a topflight field that he lowered his own indoor mark for the mile to 4:02.5. Air Force Lieut. Bill Bellinger, world indoor record holder at two miles, set a new three-mile...
...riding the IRT, Belafonte now has his choice of two Mercedes-Benzes; to the subway girl, who was his first wife, he was able to give a $10,000 platinum bracelet as a "divorce present" when their marriage broke up in 1957. Each of the seven albums he has recorded (for RCA Victor) has sold more than 200,000 copies, and one (Belafonte Sings of the Caribbean) became the first LP by a single performer to sell more than a million, a record since matched only by Elvis Presley. Belafonte's $700,000, five-year contract with the Riviera...