Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Big (6 ft., 190 lbs.), fleet-footed Jackie Robinson, 30, the first man to cross the color line into the major leagues, was voted by the sportwriters Most Valuable Player in the National League. As second baseman for the pennant-winning Brooklyn Dodgers, he had been the league's batting champion (.342) and leading base stealer. The award would give him extra leverage in prying more salary out of Boss Branch Rickey than the estimated $22,000 he got this year. Said Robinson: "I don't know how much there was to those rumors about Mr. Rickey wanting...
...Big reason for the zither dither: the catchy, twangy background music that British Cinema Director Carol Reed (Odd Man Out, The Fallen Idol) had worked into his new smash hit, The Third Man. The picture demanded music appropriate to post-World War II Vienna, but Director Reed had made up his mind to avoid schmalzy, heavily orchestrated waltzes. In Vienna one night Reed listened to a wine-garden zitherist named Anton Karas, was fascinated by the jangling melancholy of his music...
...outfit a $2,000,000-a-year business was partly luck, mostly hard work and sound business sense. When he got a chance to head his own twelve-piece band in 1940, Monroe gave up his concert ambitions, trained with a vocal coach for four months to tone his big voice down to dance-hall size. At the same time he mapped out his strategy for winning the public. One important campaign detail: constant caravaning through the hinterlands...
Time for Table-Hopping. It all added up to big business. In addition to Vaughn Monroe Productions Inc. (which covers his tours, records, and radio shows, brought in $1,000,000 last year), he owns or has an interest in a fleet of Boston taxicabs, an office building, a song-publishing house, a moving-picture producing outfit which has just completed a picture starring Vaughn Monroe...
...big-time operator, Monroe still finds time for table-hopping between sets, shaking hands with visiting record salesmen from the Midwest, jawing with disc jockeys from upstate, planning his next cross-country dash. Says he: "You keep in business by keeping in touch with the people . . . playing for everyone there is to play...