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...since NBC made Nat "King" Cole the first Negro to host his own network show (TIME, July 15), potential sponsors have kept a sharp eye trained on both the show and its popularity polls. But even top nationwide ratings and a glittering line-up of guest stars (Harry Belafonte, Ella Fitzgerald, and in a rare upcoming live appearance, Bing Crosby) have failed to get him a national-sponsor nibble. Last week the makers of Rheingold Beer persuaded NBC to let them sponsor Cole in the East only-where Rheingold is marketed. "The fact that Cole is a Negro...
Mean Old Germs. For his oddball efforts, Soupy is rewarded with a vast local audience approaching 1,000,000 and some prestige-pushing visits from such stars as Ella Fitzgerald, Roberta Sherwood and Duke Ellington. From his two shows and numberless personal appearances, Soupy will make about $100,000 this year. He writes his own material, virtually runs both shows singlehanded. To thousands of moppets who watch Comics daily, he is a genial, long-faced man in a crushed top hat, an outsized bow tie and a bulky black sweater, who moves with rubbery ease from classic grin to classic...
Family: The marshal and his wife Alexandra have two daughters-Era, married to the son of Marshal Vasilevsky, and Ella, wife of Marshal Kliment Voroshilov's grandson...
Everybody was there-Roy Eldridge and Gerry Mulligan, Count Basie and Dave Brubeck, Erroll Garner and Ella Fitzgerald and a gaggle of other big-name jazz artists-as the fourth Newport (R.I.) Jazz Festival opened last week with the authority of an established institution. On opening night, there was a moist-eyed party in honor of Trumpeter Louis Armstrong's 57th birthday, which Louis ended on a sour note by blasting out The Star-Spangled Banner and stomping off stage when he found he could play only 13 numbers. Eartha Kitt undulated her way through a 15-minute dance...
...Chamber of Commerce wired a withdrawal of the invitation, and Dr. Powell, who at first insisted that he would attend, finally bowed out. In Toledo, Negro Civic Leader Ella Phillips Stewart heard about the ruckus and decided that she would not accept her invitation. In Chicago, Roosevelt University Sociology Professor St. Clair Drake also received an invitation, but the word from Richmond was that his invitation-as well as any others that had slipped through the racial screen-would be withdrawn...