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...resort on the Catskill borsch circuit and signed him to tour the country with his own show. But each time, the big chance seemed to fizzle out, and Fisher went back to dates in small clubs and theaters, cutting an occasional record for RCA Victor's second-string Bluebird label...
Just south of Hartford, McKee was forced to stop again. This time a bluebird had peprehed on the back seat...
...Glenn Miller, who was reported missing in a flight over the English Channel during the war. Then he got a chance to try a few more in the old "danceable" mood. Recording with a house band of studio musicians, he turned out four sides for Victor's revived Bluebird (49?) label which sold so fast that some dealers hiked the price to 79?. Flanagan's next recording sold just as well. Before he knew it, 31-year-old Ralph Flanagan was the first bandleader to become a rage on records without ever showing his face to his public...
...almost as bad on Utah's famed Bear River marshes, where "bluebird weather" was keeping the ducks deep in the marshes...
Died. Sir Malcolm Campbell, 63, internationally known speed king; of a cardiac condition and stroke; in Reigate, England. A racing enthusiast from boyhood, Sir Malcolm (King George V knighted him in 1931) tried bicycles, motorcycles and airplanes before turning to automobiles in 1910. Driving his famed "Bluebird" over the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah in 1935, he was the first to crack the five-mile-a-minute mark (he hit 301.1292 m.p.h.*); he switched to speedboats, and four years later, on Lake. Coniston, England, established a record 141.74 m.p.h., which has never been equaled...