LABOR: Sugar Daddy

James' Caesar Petrillo went right on playing the role with which he wowed the House Education and Labor Committee a fortnight ago (TIME, Feb. 2): a rough but kindly man with a heart as big as a molasses bucket. Last week, he called the big men of the radio networks to his Manhattan office and gave them all presents: he agreed to a 60-day contract extension which eliminated the threat of a radio music strike; he dropped his fight to pressure the networks into forcing their member stations to hire more musicians. And he ended his three-year ban against the...

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