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...trouper since she was five, Cleveland-born Dorothy has waited a long time for people to start looking. As a child, she toured the South in "a kind of package show" with her mother (Ruby Dandridge of the Beulah and Judy Canova radio shows), sometimes singing hymns and "sweet songs," such as The World Is Waiting for the Sunrise, in churches. At 16, she was singing with her sister in Jimmie Lunceford's band at Manhattan's Cotton Club, but nobody paid much attention. In 1942, she got married; now divorced, she has a daughter, Harolyn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Eye & Ear Specialist | 2/4/1952 | See Source »

Napoleon-in-his-birthday-suit was sculptured by Antonio Canova in 1811; since 1859 he has greeted the startled visitors who enter the large courtyard of the Palazzo di Brera in Milan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 13, 1950 | 11/13/1950 | See Source »

Marriage Revealed. Judy Canova, 33 hillbilly entertainer; and Philip Rivero 37, Cuban importer; she for the fourth time, he for the first; in Mexico, in June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 18, 1950 | 9/18/1950 | See Source »

...Judy Canova Show (Sat. 10 p.m., NBC). Fall opening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Program Preview, Oct. 3, 1949 | 10/3/1949 | See Source »

...finally honored by Hall of Fame (ABC, Sun., 6-6:30 p.m., E.S.T.), few listeners knew Mel by name. But millions probably knew him as Jack Benny's English butler, train announcer, parrot, French violin teacher and news reporter; as Burns & Allen's melancholy postman; as Judy Canova's Pedro, Salesman Roscoe Wortle and a chronic hiccougher; as Bob Hope's "Private Snafu"; as Abbott & Costello's Scotsman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: One-Man Crowd | 2/18/1946 | See Source »

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