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...Series E bond. And virtue, in Wayne's case, brings just as solid returns. This year, for the second year in a row, the Motion Picture Herald poll of U.S. theater owners and exhibitors showed John Wayne the country's top box-office draw. When a breathless pressagent first called to tell him the great news, Wayne's modest response was characteristic. "Why?" he drawled...
...year. The musicians, most of whom have been with Les five to ten years, earn around $10,000 apiece, and are settled family men with permanent homes around Los Angeles. This gives the Band of Renown a respectable pipe & slippers atmosphere, in contrast to the breathless, upper-berth days of the middle '30s, when Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey and Jimmie Lunceford rocketed around the U.S. with their big bands, collecting frenzied worship. In 15 years the band business has settled down, and chunky Les Brown, who played his first dance date with a clarinet...
...Hollywood, Lana Turner, who did her bit to make the public sweater-conscious, poured her well-known curves into a different mold, gave photographers a new waistline pose. Trussed almost breathless in a Gay Nineties corset, Lana said: "Girls with hourglass figures set off by those tiny waists had the right idea if beau-catching was their idea...
...describes himself as a "British Milton Berle, only with a heart," is the man who was persuasive enough to sell sobersided BBC on doing the show. His only regret: that BBC is still too finicky to let him use announcers who will lose their pants during warmup time. Still breathless over its daring, BBC is also keeping a cautious eye on the show's budget. Warned a spokesman: "The gifts will be strictly limited in cost - no big-money American stuff here. We don't want to buy viewers." There seemed little danger. Groused one disgruntled member...
Tony makes his stage entrance in a breathless vaudeville lope. When the applause and giggles have died down, he begins his act, swaying his loose-limbed body, singing in a style derived from several of his colleagues. When he belts and writhes a tune, he sounds like Frankie Laine; he uses Frank Sinatra's phrasing and slurring methods; he occasionally adds a few scale slides reminiscent of Billy Eckstine; at times he seems to be contemplating Bing Crosby's nonchalance, as through a dark glass enviously...