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...People (Tues. 9 p.m., CBS and CBS Television). The program's first simultaneous broadcast-telecast, with Fred Allen and Nature Boy Eden Ahbez (TIME, May 3) as guests...
...before James Caesar Petrillo put an end to it all on Dec. 31. But who could have guessed that a long-haired Hollywood "hermit," a bearded and usually barefoot character, had a hit song in his pocket? No one did-except Nat ("King") Cole. And last week, with Eden Ahbez' Nature Boy, King Cole and Capitol Records had the biggest musical scoop since...
...into No. 3 on Variety's jukebox hit parade. Other record companies last week scrambled to catch up. Unable to use Petrillo's men, Columbia recorded Frank Sinatra against a chorus of singers; Decca did the same with Dick Haymes. Nature Boy's lyrics, also by Ahbez, were a cut above the usual Tin Pan Alley doggerel...
Head Music. Eden Ahbez (who signs his name with small letters because he believes that "only God and the Infinite should be capitalized") looks like a fugitive from Mysore, but is actually from Brooklyn by way of Kansas. Now 35, Eden says he has been hearing wonderful music in his head ever since he can remember...