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...part-time pen-in-hand set was busy churning out autobiographies. Sculptor Jo Davidson promised a limited edition of 74 signed copies at $50 each. Violinist Yehudi Menuhin, 35, decided it was time to tell his life story; so did Louis Armstrong, Ezio Pinza and Jessica Dragonette. Even Bobo Rockefeller was giving the matter serious thought. Among those who have reached the working title stage: Choreographer Agnes de Mille (Dance to the Piper); Princess lleana of Rumania, great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria (I Live Again); Society-Columnist Cobina Wright (/ Never Grew Up); and Actress Charlotte Greenwood (Never Too Tall...
...exact bonus price, but admitted: "It's the highest ever given to any player"-even higher than the $100,000 the Pittsburgh Pirates paid last year for Pitcher Paul Pettit. Cleveland's newest bonus baby (most famous: Pitcher Bob Feller) is 18-year-old Pitcher Billy Joe Davidson, reported by wide-eyed scouts to be more poised and even faster than Feller when he hit the majors...
Left-handed Davidson got his start early. When he was three, his father used to toss a ball with his son in the backyard at Marion, N.C. Since then, Billy Joe has pitched two no-hitters, won 20 straight for Oak Ridge (N.C.) Military Institute, averaging 18 strike-outs a game. His semi-pro record: 15-5. Cleveland plans to keep its expensive, draftable youngster for a ten-day tryout, then ship him to the San Diego farm club...
Later, while picking at the piano, he thought up a melody for "an evening prayer." Says Bob Grant: "I whistled it for Mrs. Davidson and she played it. She seemed to understand. We worked together about three months while she put the notes on paper-'row of prunes,' she calls them." Mrs. Davidson insisted that Grant write the words himself; it would be "good therapy...
Friends got Arthur Fiedler, conductor of the Boston Pops, to come to the hospital and listen to the music while Mrs. Davidson played it. Fiedler was impressed, offered to send an arranger to set it for orchestra, asked Dartmouth man ('47) Grant: "How would you like Evening Prayer introduced by the Pops on Dartmouth night?" Between astonishment and gratefulness, Grant just said, "Dear God!" At week's end, Ed Sullivan had scheduled both Grant and Evening Prayer for a June airing on his Toast of the Town (CBS-TV). Composer Grant, back at Cushing, was happily pecking away...