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...artists and repertory) chiefs, who decide what the record companies will record; the companies, in turn, spread payola around to selected disk jockeys. If the custom is fully understood in the trade, it is rarely discussed outside it. But last week Singer Frank Sinatra fired a telegram from Hollywood (a town with its own brand of payola) to Florida's Senator George A. Smathers of the Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee, accusing Columbia Records' bearded pop A & R chief Mitch Miller of self-confessed payolatizing...
...Shot of Pizazz. Sinatra's telegram was transparently timed to pump a little publicity pizazz into the weary, long-running argument between 33 members of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) and the organization known as Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI). For a generation, ASCAP has been collecting flat, annual fees from broadcasting stations for broadcast performances of its members' works. In 1939, some 250 pinched broadcasters, including all the major networks, formed a rival organization, BMI, and the two have been skirmishing ever since. The point currently at issue: Does the broadcasters' control...
...year-old reporter named Lucius Beebe from the now defunct Boston Telegram came to interview the 20-year-old author, and the two were soon painting the town mauve. "We lived on gin and Swinburne," recalls Beebe. "Jim had delusions of grandeur when it came to money. When he called on a girl, he would put on a morning coat and striped pants, hire a car and get a million orchids - all of it charged and seldom paid...
...Hollywood Composer Dimitri Tiomkin some popular lyrics for new movies: "You are a mess, you are my Sweet Smell of Success"; "The day they hanged my daddy, mother was just A Face in the Crowd." To the dismay of NBC brass, he lashed out at the New York World-Telegram's Critic Harriet Van Home because she accused him of a lack of brashness ("I don't know what that broad meant"). If Paar can keep the fun and games going, he would like to call his new show Son of Tonight...
...luck to land in Los Angeles in the headiest heyday of the city and of Hearst newspapering. Hired at 19 by Hearst's old Los Angeles Herald (for $7.50 a week). Canadian-born Richardson shrewdly plied the creed he learned as a cub on the old Winnipeg Telegram: "Walk like a newspaperman...