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Sanford J. Langa, P.O. Box 90, Puunene, Hawaii, a graduate of the Wasatch Academy, Mt. Pleasant, Utah...
Pain & Revolt. No classical artist demands and so often gets Rubinstein's high minimum guarantee ($3,500 a concert), but he is a good investment. At one concert in Lincoln, Neb. last year, Rubinstein earned $5,400 as his share of the box-office receipts. His Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2 was Victor's 1946 best-selling classical album. The $85,000 he collected for three days' piano playing for the movie I've Always Loved You is still a Hollywood record...
Rowe obligingly rolled it in from the pitcher's box on the ground. By the time it reached home plate, if not before, it was dry. Growled Ott: "Sliders and sinkers revolve-you can't see the stitches on the seams as they come to the plate like you can with a spitter." Other pitchers-Rip Sewell, Fred Ostermueller, Claude Passeau-have been unofficially accused of using "spit-sweat" balls in pinches. They deny it, and so does Schoolboy Rowe...
...grind." After he began sports announcing, he spent eight years playing second fiddle to Sportcaster Bill Stern, doing the crowd description fill-ins at big games and announcing the second-string events. In 1940 he had a chance to telecast the New York World's Fair Soap Box Derby. In & out of television ever since, he deserted radio for good last November and bet on video as a full-time career...
Capra made the first one, It's a Wonderful Life. It was an excellent film, but not at the box offices. It was released just about the time that movie's attendance, in general, began to slump. It's a Wonderful Life cost $2,300,000 and has grossed only about $2,000,000 so far, less than half of what Liberty expected...