DISK JOCKEYS: The Big Payola

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At week's end the D.J.s were still collecting their annual dew, sloshing from hospitality suite to hospitality suite getting ready for an all-night party with top entertainers (Patti Page, Vic Damone, Peggy Lee, Pat Boone, etc.). The temperature in Miami was in the 80s, and there were circles of sweat even under the tone arms of the companies' endlessly blaring phonographs. But most of the D.J.s would stay happy for another year, and that is what mattered—for, as all the companies agreed: "Without you, boy, we're dead."

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