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...swoon sweepstakes, a new favorite has risen fast. Handsome Perry Como, 32, an ex-barber, last week finished second in Billboard Magazine's annual poll of 324 radio editors. (The winner, for the eighth year in a row, was Bing Crosby.) Como had climbed ahead of Dick Haymes and Frank Sinatra...
After the election came carnival. Posters blaring announcements of fiesta dances encroached on the tattered billboard images of Perón and Tamborini. Argentines who could afford it rushed off to the villas and casino of Mar del Plata. Yet Argentina, recovering slowly from the calmest election day-and bitterest campaign-in its history, was hardly in a carnival mood. It was still dazed. Juan Pueblo, the man on the Buenos Aires street corner, contemplating the strange, post-election calm, said "Parece raro-Seems funny...
...theatrical weekly Billboard reported that dentists gathered at their annual convention in Manhattan chose, for a collective theatrical fling, Deep Are the Roots...
Last week this old tongue twister, with new and even less intelligible lyrics, was the fast-climbing No. 2 seller in Billboard magazine's poll of record sales. It was well on its way to join Mairzy Boats and the Hut Sut Song in the jabberwocky Valhalla of the jukebox. Twenty-nine-year-old Ar kansas-born Jo Proffitt had changed the Chinaman into a chick, and called it Chickery Chick. She sent the lyrics to Tin Pan Alleysmith Sidney Lippman, who added some new notes. Now it describes a chicken who got bored with saying "chick chick...
...responsible for Hunt's spectacular leap into the big time is its unspectacular owner and president: black-haired, aggressive Norton Simon, 38. When he bought control of Hunt in 1942, many housewives had never heard of Hunt Products. Simon told them by billboard, newspaper and radio so loudly and effectively that "Hunt for the Best" became a household slogan. One result: the West Coast, all but drinking Hunt's tomato sauce like milk, now buys almost half of the 100 million cans a year they sell (nearly five cans per capita...