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By: Deborah Speer cover of Pollstar 12/21/20 issue Ben Bart might have seemed like another unremarkable music fan as a young man from Knoxville, Tenn., in the 1930s, other than a penchant for traveling between Memphis and Nashville to see the orchestras and bands of the day perform live. The main object of his affection was “race music” – the euphemism of the time for what evolved into R&B and soul music, and the (segregated) domain of Black musicians.  He’d gotten a job at the Gale Agency booking the artists he loved and, by 1945, was read...

reporter: we're just seven hours away from a possible bart strike that could strand some 400,000 bart passengers early tomorrow morning. now, negotiations are going on across the street here at caltrans headquarters on grand avenue. we were told that bart is willing to go all night and extend talks if necessary to avoid a strike. >> negotiators for bart and the unions filed into the building at 3:30. this union negotiator had this to say: >> we're very far apart. we have not pitch up. we were at the table for a day and a half and the district never showed up. >> he says the distance ...