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Looking back 48 years to his birth in a railroad worker's family in Savanna, Ill., King solemnly says the obvious: "I'm kind of like a Horatio Alger story." King's story includes stretches as newsboy, railway worker, insurance salesman and clarinetist. In 1927 he brought his romantic profile and even more romantic rhythms into Chicago's Aragon Ballroom, and built up a devoted radio audience when he was sponsored by Lady Esther cosmetics. As a radio fixture, he has piled up more than 10,000 programs...
Switzerland's studious, bespectacled Hazy Osterwald led a "moldy fig" (bop-eese for Dixieland) combo into town, proclaiming that his life was devoted "to imposing good music on the Swiss dance hall." He got more sympathy than applause. But French Clarinetist Claude Luter, who learned his style from old King Oliver records, got his usual stamping raves. And when Gösta Törner's All-Star...
...only member of the orchestra not shown in this picture is a clarinetist...
...Savannah, Novelist Kathleen (Forever Amber) Winsor got married to Arnold Krakower, the lawyer who helped her get the divorce last December from husband No. 2, Clarinetist Artie Shaw...
When the Freshman Smoker Committee's feature attraction, Clarinetist Ed Hall, arrived at 12:35 a.m., only a hundred dallying beer drinkers were still around to hear him. Beer was the only article in the beverage department that held out for more than an hour...