Word: concertized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When first returns from Missouri indicated that the state might go Republican, Truman exclaimed: "Wow! I think that calls for a concert." He slid behind the chrysanthemum-bedecked piano, tinkled out Paderewski's Minuet, followed it with gay waltzes. At 9:30 p.m. Vice President Wallace, whose doggedly devoted campaigning had brought him both sneers ("the Johnny Appleseed of 1944"), and cheers (louder at Madison Square Garden than those for Truman), became the first to "concede" a Democratic victory. But Harry Truman kept his thin mouth closed. When Tom Dewey conceded defeat at 2:15 a.m. (C.W.T.), Truman hailed...
...paper, Haggin has a comic gift for impersonating musical stuffed shirts. He can also tell howlers on himself: once, at a concert, when he glared at Violinist Jacques Gordon, who was noisily shuffling a score, Gordon glared back at the noiseless Haggin and growled: "Shut...
...devotion of Nelson Eddy's millions of fans is so fanatical that his fan mail (85% from girls and women) is extraordinary even by radio-cinema standards. Eddy's concert tours sell out way in advance, and he averages $15,000 a week from them. His radio salary is $5,000 a week, not including guest appearances. Another $60,000 to $80,000 a year accrues from his phonograph recordings, at least four of which have sold over a million discs apiece. With his movie income, his total earnings to date are about...
Very Good Eddy. Eddy's hair was already greying when he put on a Los Angeles concert in 1933. The audience demanded 18 encores, and among the enthusiasts was M.G.M.'s Louis B. Mayer. Three Hollywood studios offered Eddy screen tests. M.G.M. won him, tinted his hair, and put him into Naughty Marietta in 1935, with Jeanette MacDonald. At the picture's preview, Director W. S. Van Dyke turned from the raving audience to Eddy and asked: "Well, how does it feel to be a great actor?" "But I'm not an actor," Eddy protested...
Born. To David Rubinoff, 47, schmaltz king of the fiddle, now on a concert and bond-selling tour of U.S. schools; and his second wife, Mertice Dean Rubinoff, 30; their first (his second) child, a son; in Wichita Falls, Tex. Name: Ruben. Weight...