Word: alec
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...beginning of each season, Kurtz packs in 20,000 Kansans for a free music festival (sponsored by a local drug chain) with soloists like Risë Stevens, Gladys Swarthout, Alec Templeton. Not above hoking a bit, Kurtz last fall led the band while Benny Goodman played Dizzy Fingers, then conducted an unrehearsed hot chorus of Anchors Aweigh...
...fall register so far there were only two new arrivals worth cooing over. Dinah Shore would be back, and with her the new comic, Peter Lind Hayes (TIME, June 24). And Victor Borge, a sort of Scandinavian Alec Templeton, would share billing with Benny Goodman...
...Alec Templeton (Sun. 8 p.m., NBC). The blind pianist-mimic, with Songstress Jo Stafford as guest star...
Small (5 ft. 2 in.; 105 Ibs.), bushy-browed Peggy picks up dialects as easily as Alec Templeton catches a tune. Whenever she is assigned a new one, she talks on the telephone with a Hollywood bit-player who speaks the dialect, instantly echoes his accent and inflection. Now she has more alter egos than she can possibly keep at work. Solution: she is writing five new shows to keep herself busy...
...Alec Templeton (Sun. 8 p.m., NBC). The blind musical satirist with tiptoe-singer Evelyn Knight as his guest...