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When the knowing readers of Down Beat and Metronome voted on their favorite vocalists a fortnight ago, Crooner Billy Eckstine landed safely at the top of both lists (TIME, Dec. 25). Last week a coast-to-coast Gallup poll reported that the man in the street didn't agree with the jazz fans. The popular favorite, after 25 years, was still Bing Crosby.* Billy Eckstine rated only tenth place, well behind such old standbys as Perry Como, Dennis Day and Nelson Eddy...
Hickman, in addition to being a coast-to-coast radio entertainer, a prize after dinner speaker, and the acknowledged poet laureate of the Great Smokies, is also a very good football coach. In 1943, when Earl Blaik was looking for the "best line coach in America," it was Hickman who went to West Point and had much to do with the success of the wartime Army teams...
Tyson, of Boston and formerly of Winthrop House, has finished his junior year and is presently on a year's leave of absence. His flight from Brownsville, Texas, to Houston was part of a coast-to-coast air trip...
...coast-to-coast hookup last week NBC broadcast what Chaplin had heard. To most listeners, the menhaden fishermen's chants, more religious than piscatorial in flavor, had a good deal in common with the best of Negro "spirituals," but they also had a fresh, saltwater tang all their own. Sample (the Barnegat's favorite chant...
Television's coast-to-coast expansion kept right on going. In Manhattan, Broadway had just lost two more legitimate theaters to TV:* the 3,000-seat Center Theatre will be converted by NBC into one of the world's largest TV studios; the Mansfield Theatre (former home of such Broadway hits as The Green Pastures, Anna Lu-casta), which CBS will lease for five years. In Hollywood, CBS announced last week that it was also buying a 13-acre site now occupied by Gilmore Stadium, the ball park of the Pacific Coast League Hollywood Stars...