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...have immunity against rubella. But Swigert had trained only with the back-up crew and there was doubt that he could properly coordinate with Lovell and Haise on such short notice. Said Astronaut Chief "Deke" Slayton: "It was sort of like trying to put Glenn Miller into Tommy Dorsey's band. Both are great musicians, but each has a different style...
...Engelbert Humperdinck Show (ABC) is an egregiously ordinary variety hour headlined by the British singer who got nowhere until he changed his name from Gerry Dorsey. He has a passable baritone and is now purportedly worth about $8,000,000. But why can't he hire some writers...
...rata representation," presumably meaning at least six seats, on the bank's 25-member board. First National countered by offering the family two seats, specified that both be filled by family representatives other than Bill White. "Young Bill is a very smart man," explains First National Chairman Montgomery Dorsey, 67. "But he doesn't have the maturity of judgment or outlook to go with his brilliance." Adds Adams: "We feel that he would be a disruptive influence on the board...
Died. Ziggy Elman, 54, self-taught trumpeter who kept the nation jumping during the swing era; in Los Angeles. Born Harry Finkelman, he changed his name after he signed with Benny Goodman in 1936, joined the Tommy Dorsey band in 1940, and after the war formed his own group. His signature tune, And the Angels Sing, which he adapted from a Jewish wedding dance, was the best-known piece in a musical bag filled with inventiveness...
Bruce Lopucki, playing number two, beat Williams' Dorsey Lynch, 4 and 3, to gain the other victory...