Word: crooner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...there were enough human bloopers to make up for the lack of old-fashioned fun. John Daly reported: "Mr. Rostrum stands in recess." Will Rogers Jr. (CBS) wound up a Stevenson interview with "Thank you very much, Governor Harriman" (Retorted Adlai: "Goodbye, Dave Garroway!"). Crooner Johnny Desmond muffed the lyrics of The Star-Spangled Banner, and NBC's Monitor introduced Mrs. Roosevelt as "Eleanor Stevenson...
...other show on the air. Since its first show (J. P. Marquand's Beginning Now), some 2,000 actors have slipped in and out of 5,000 costumes for Matinee's forays into contemporary drama (93), comedy (35), period pieces (20) and the classics (11). Actor-Crooner John Conte has clocked in a record 3,240 minutes of work on-camera as the show's host...
...sports announcer who has al ready earned enough money to buy himself part of four Michigan radio stations (WKMH, WKMF, WSAM, WKHM), Fred Knorr organized an eleven-man syndicate (including Crooner Bing Crosby, who is also vice president of the Pittsburgh Pirates), bought the Tigers from the estate of the late Walter O. Briggs Sr. for $5,500,000, with a promise to keep present President Walter O. ("Spike") Briggs Jr. on the payroll as executive vice president. No one ever paid more for a major league team. (Previous record: $4,550,000, paid by Brewer August A. Busch...
...University of Miami's Irwin Luck, 18, tyro tunesmith, proved his sophomore flair for big-time promotion. Weary of begging Crooner Perry Como to plug a passel of Lucky lyrics, Floridian Luck anted up $500 of his own savings plus $350 from his real-estate man papa, bought a month's space on a huge (20 ft.-by-60 ft.) billboard near Times Square to make his plea public. Excerpt from Luck's open letter to Como: "I pray that you will give me the chance to meet you and maybe hear you sing...
Married. Julius La Rosa, 26, TV and nightspot crooner, whose star burned bright after he was fired before millions of televiewers from the Arthur Godfrey and His Friends show in 1953 because he had lost his "humility"; and Rosemary ("Rory") Meyer, 25, brunette secretary to TV Crooner Perry Como ; in Francis Creek...