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...Oldtime Crooner Rudy ("The Vagabond Lover") Vallee, still crying "Heigh-ho, everybody" in the nightclubs, dropped into Port Arthur, Ont. for a one-night stand and hinted that he might not go on forever. At 52, he said, he was getting tired and thinking of retiring in a year or two to his Hollywood home. A reporter asked how old he felt. Sighed Rudy: "Like an old race horse regarding the ice wagon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 14, 1953 | 9/14/1953 | See Source »

When a man gets a crush on Rita Hayworth, he is sometimes in danger of carrying the thing too far. Twice-married Crooner Dick Haymes, 34, was in trouble with the U.S. Immigration Department because he followed thrice-married Rita to Hawaii last May. Possible punishment: deportation. A "neutral alien," born in Argentina (of Scottish-Irish parents), Haymes entered the U.S. in 1937. He forfeited his right to U.S. citizenship in 1944, the Government said, by claiming exemption from the draft, and thus re-entered the country illegally when he returned from his romantic pursuit of the rollicking Rita...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 17, 1953 | 8/17/1953 | See Source »

Summertime, U.S.A. (Tues. & Thurs., 7:45 p.m., CBS-TV) is filled with danceable music and pretty girls. Using scarcely a line of dialogue, the show features Crooner Mel Torme and Teresa Brewer, a topnotch singer with a voice somewhere between a blowtorch and a cello. Also on hand: the Honeydreamers quintet, and a trio of dancers cavorting at different U.S. vacation spots each week. The Thursday commercials, plugging General Electric, are unobjectionable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: The New Shows | 7/20/1953 | See Source »

...Other Love (Perry Como; Victor). One of the better ballads from the new Rodgers & Hammerstein show, Me and Juliet. Crooner Como is in top form in the Romeo role...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Pop Records, Jun. 22, 1953 | 6/22/1953 | See Source »

...very good," he says in his professional goulash-English. So last Christmas he announced that he would make his first public appearance as a crooner on his wrestling show. But on the big night he wrestled first-and "this bum gets me in a hammerlock, and he breaks my thumb. I was in such pain that I couldn't sing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: From Mat to Mike | 6/1/1953 | See Source »

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