REAL ESTATE: Money Maestro

Until a year ago, Horace Murray Heidt was known chiefly as an amiable, nice-looking bandleader whose Pot o'Gold had started the rash of radio giveaway programs. Then he tangled with Jules Caesar Stein's Music Corp. of America, which controls a glittering array of movie and radio talent as tightly as James Caesar Petrillo controls his musicians. As agent for Heidt, Jules Stein was not content to collect only 10% of Heidt's musical earnings; he wanted a cut of all Heidt's earnings. Heidt refused and was forced to quit the music business until...

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