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Originally a trombone player, McCoy says he switched to trumpet when his trombone slide kept knocking off ladies' hats during choir practice at the Methodist Church in his home town, Portsmouth, Ohio. In the '30s, Bandleader McCoy was a consistent winner of a jazz-magazine poll labeling him "The King of Corn." The title never bothered...
Tenor Vickers' soberly practical attitude toward his success stems from the fact that it took a long time coming. At home in Prince Albert, Sask., Vickers sang "in every church choir in town," but planned to become a doctor. When he graduated from high school (his father was a school principal), he found the colleges jammed with returning veterans, turned to clerking in Safeway and Woolworth stores, eventually became a tool buyer for the Hudson Bay Co. department store. When he was appearing in an amateur production of Naughty Marietta, the Toronto Conservatory heard of him, gave...
Born into a nonmusical family (his father is a Westinghouse distributor) of mixed German-Dutch ancestry, Schippers at eight shocked his parents, staunch members of the Bethany (Dutch) Reformed Church, by joining St. Luke's Episcopal Church in Kalamazoo-because it had a good boys' choir. Schippers managed to finish high school when he was 13, moved to Philadelphia's Curtis Institute. After graduation he got a series of pickup jobs that led to Consul (he caught Composer Menotti's attention while coaching singers for the show) and to the Met, which signed...
...unusual new volunteer offered her services to Graham's crusade last week. The volunteer: comely Divorcee Eleanor Searle Whitney, ex-wife of Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, onetime choir soloist in Dover, Ohio, who became one of Billy's most faithful followers during his New York City Crusade in 1957, when she rounded up a Bible class of her Long Island friends for Evangelist Graham to address in private sessions. After a quick tiger-shoot in Nepal and a swing through Iran, Eleanor Whitney let it be known last week that she intends to join Graham, possibly to help...
...October through April) of New York's music season. Probably no city in the world offers so great a volume or variety of music, although the fact is sometimes obscured in the blasts of publicity for a few glamour names. Performing groups range from the distinguished, amateur Dessoff Choir, specializing in a cappella Renaissance music, to the new, still uneven Contemporary Baroque Ensemble. Some attractions on display in the last fortnight...