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Interviewed in Manhattan, debonair Crooner Billy Eckstine announced plans to record an Eckstine-composed duet, Two for Tee, with an old fairway acquaintance, Golfer Jimmy Demaret, three-time winner of the Masters Tournament, and described by Billy as "a surprisingly sweet Killarney tenor type." But Golfer Demaret has no place in Eckstine's vision of the composite "dream crooner." His choices and their attributes: "The ideal lad would have Perry Como's voice, Frank Sinatra's ease, Tony Martin's showmanship, Nat 'King' Cole's soul-and Bing Crosby's money...
Surrounded by "enemies" bent on "crucifying" him. Crooner Dick Haymes, fighting to escape being bounced back to his native Argentina, finally suggested the name of one of his persecutors. The accused: U.S. Attorney General Herbert Brownell Jr. In Haymes's deportation hearing, one of his lawyers insinuated in a question to a witness that Brownell himself had ordered Haymes arrested while the crooner relaxed off guard, during a supposed 60-day truce with the Government. At week's end, another bit of Haymes's past caught up with him. This time the persecutor was his former wife...
Three Coins in the Fountain (Frank Sinatra; Capitol). Crooner Sinatra sings in a strong, wide range about the Fountain of Trevi in Rome, a wishing-well attraction for the tourist. Result: plenty of coins in the jukeboxes...
...cozy little resort spot called Zephyr Cove on the Nevada shore of Lake Tahoe, sultry Cinemactress Ava Gardner, 31, settled down for six weeks while awaiting a divorce from Husband No. 3, Crooner-Cinemactor Frank Sinatra (No.1: Cinemugger Mickey Rooney; No. 2: Bandleader Artie Shaw). Though well on her way to challenging the marriage records of such Hollywood veterans as Arline Judge (six husbands) and Hedy Lamarr (only five), Ava seemed momentarily weary. Just back from Italy, she was on the mend after a bout with two kidney stones. Nor had she got a warm welcome from her studio, which...
...Hollywood's Mocambo nightclub, up & coming Cinemactress Grace (Mogambo) Kelly, 24, turned up for dinner as the date of mellowing (52) Crooner Bing Crosby, who bridled painfully when a photographer caught him dancing without the hair piece he usually wears before the cameras...