Word: victim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
...aren't a success in show business until you do something that makes the people dig down in their pants pockets and buy a ticket." Last week so many people were digging down for tickets to his rollicking smash hit musical that Music Man Willson was a victim of his own success, had to watch one performance from standing room in the rear of the theater...
...undersnow tunnels. The men ran movies three times a week, exulted in the talents of their cook. About once a week they talked by radiotelephone to their families. Occasionally, some of them got tired of hearing certain hi-fi records, took to hiding them around the camp (one victim: twangy Ballad Singer-Guitarist Burl Ives). But the men balked only once-when a stateside psychologist sent down a lengthy questionnaire probing each man's attitude toward the others. On unanimous demand, the camp doctor tore up the questions...
Colin, age four, "has a lightness of touch and a dexterity that will certainly put him on top of the heap if he ever takes up safe-cracking." His twin, Johnny, is a victim of the chaos and disorder which exist to be-wilder the precise mind. "Indeed," Mother reports, "if one of the beans on his plate is slightly longer than the others he can scarcely bear to eat it." The youngest child is fortunately only seventeen months old and only gurgles and smiles. His parents nevertheless have great hopes that he will grow up to be as eccentric...
Return Stamp. In Indianapolis, Hold-up Man Kenneth Dunville, 51, was easily captured after he stole $126, a wristwatch and a ring from a druggist, ordered his victim to drive down Bellefontaine Street, remarked as he jumped out of the car: "I live down here...