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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Comedy Hour (Sun. 8 p.m., NBC). Eddie Cantor...
Comedy Hour (Sun. 8 p.m., NBC). Eddie Cantor and Jack Benny...
...such notorious gangsters as Frank Costello and Arthur ("Dutch Schultz") Flegenheimer have also sent a stream of eager youngsters out to fame, fortune and high public service. Among them: Elder Statesman Bernard Baruch, Panama Canal Engineer George W. Goethals. Opera Star Rise Stevens, Singer Robert Merrill and Comedian Eddie Cantor. About two-thirds of last year's graduates went on to college this autumn and collected $2,500,000 in scholarships in the process...
Died. Friedrich Schorr, 64, famed Wagnerian baritone of the Metropolitan Opera (1923-43); of cancer; in Farmington, Conn. Hungarian-born son of a Jewish cantor, he first studied law in Vienna eventually joined a barnstorming Wagnerian troupe, and after one season in the U.S., was signed up by the Met. Best-known for his memorable Hans Sachs in Die Meistersinger and Wotan in Die Walüre, Baritone Schorr shut himself up for hours before singing a new role, to master every histrionic detail...
...Broadway-wise customers, how to flash his bright smile at the right moment, how to pitch his voice for the best effect. Eddie landed wintertime jobs after that, e.g., singing during the chorus-girl numbers at Manhattan's Copacabana. But his real break came when Eddie Cantor spotted him three summers later at Grossinger's and took him on a vaudeville tour. Since then, Fisher's easygoing voice has made 14 hit records in a row-his I'm Walking Behind You is this week's No. 1 bestseller-and his four radio...