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Wilmoth Houdini (real name: Edgar Leon St.-Clair) calls himself King of Calypso, a title sought after by rivals with such imposing titles as The Lord Executor, The Lord Invader (Rum & Coca-Cola), The Senior Inventor, King Radio, Attila the Hun, The Growler and The Caresser. All of them are old hands at dashing off musical comments on world affairs and local scandals, in Latin-African rhythms as insistent as radio commercials, and in the oddly distorted British accent of the British West Indies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: King of Calypso | 8/26/1946 | See Source »

Arguing for the petitioner in the final will be John Cancian 3L, George N. Leighton 3L, Herbert Berman 3L, and Daniel Kraemor 3L. Opposing them will be Charles W. Davis 3L, James D. St. Clair 3L, Thomas P. Ford 3L, and Lambert Turner...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Judges Woodbury, Kern, Murdock Chosen to Preside in Ames Finals | 8/23/1946 | See Source »

...Clair Restaurant...price of fried scallop dinner from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Up, Up, and UP | 7/16/1946 | See Source »

...Clair Jones...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Roster of Alumni Returning for AHC Post-Victory Meeting | 6/4/1946 | See Source »

...treacly tenor sax, and the fiddles in his 19-piece band. This diluted sugar has helped draw 1,000,000 dancers to the famed Cocoanut Grove at Los Angeles' Ambassador Hotel in the five years he has played there. He would like to record Debussy's Clair de Lune, but it will be over the copyright owners' dead bodies. Says he: "You've got to give the public something it can hang onto-some real melody that isn't too long, too involved or too deadly. For instance, they want me to try the Moonlight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Tchaikovsky in the Grove | 5/27/1946 | See Source »

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