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...G.l.s who like jive and pin-up girls in about equal proportions, the Armed Forces Radio Service hit upon a neat solution: wrap up both and deliver them in a single package. The package is a pretty ex-movie starlet named Rebel Randall, the disc jockey of Jukebox, U.S.A., whose face and statistics (36 in. bust and hips, 24-in. waist) are every bit as appealing as her throaty voice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: G.I.s' Disc Jockey | 5/21/1951 | See Source »

Though she still makes an occasional movie (her most recent is a quickie called Danger Zone), Rebel hopes that the Armed Forces Radio will let her keep her disc jockey show on the air as long as there are U.S. troops overseas. Adds Rebel, who has three brothers of her own in service: "I guess that will be a long time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: G.I.s' Disc Jockey | 5/21/1951 | See Source »

...sheet music, Chappell Music commissioned Disc Jockey Thomas to shake the rosebuds out of the oriental version, replace them with full-blown Western lyrics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: A Rose Is a Rose ... | 5/14/1951 | See Source »

...icing on the cake for Meredith Willson last week. The big event was the celebration of his 20th anniversary with NBC as probably the most durable composer-conductor in radio. Tallulah saluted him over the air with a sub-contralto speech, and gave him a plaque. His publishers exhorted disc jockeys throughout the U.S. to make it "May-the-Good-Lord-Bless-and-Keep-You" Week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Durable Iowa Boy | 5/14/1951 | See Source »

Rockabye Dudley (Fri. 12:05 a.m., NBC) offers a whispering disc jockey, knee-deep in poesy. Sample: "Here comes Rockabye Dudley/Out of the blue/ Floating on a light cloud/To you." The music is an approximation of the verse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio & TV: The New Shows | 5/14/1951 | See Source »

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