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Word: recordsful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Not all companies were satisfied with Clay's code. When they paid him, they wanted to hear their records played. But Clay did not always oblige. Chicago's Chess and Checker record companies, Clay claims, got so mad at him one year that they did not even send...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Wages of Spin | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

Nivins the Nightshade. The payola game brought Disk Jockey Clay in contact with a string of Damon Runyon-like characters, including Nat ("The Rat") Tarnapol, artist-and-repertory man for Roulette records, and Promoter Harry Balk, indicted earlier this year as a fixer of newspaper puzzle contests (TIME, March 9...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Wages of Spin | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

Honky-Tonk Lunches. The Economist on last week's newsstands had 136 pages, was the fattest issue in the history of the publication (Economist staffers steadfastly decline to call it a magazine, always refer to it as "the paper"). The newsstand sales put U.S. circulation up to 7,500...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Passion Without Prejudice | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

New Genesis. Without any written records of their faith, which were presumably lost in the shipwreck, Saturday's Oilmen handed down what they could remember of their rituals and practices from generation to generation, losing more and more as the centuries rolled on. Then, tradition relates that some time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Saturday's Oilmen | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

In the final night of solicitation, Eliot House moved up from second place to win the $20 worth of phonograph records offered by the Coop to the House with the largest rate of per capita giving in the Combined Charities Drive. The Eliot House average was $6.53, nearly double the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Charities Net $21,657; Eliot Finishes On Top | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

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