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...successor to John Philip Sousa as top U.S. bandmaster, Goldman finds the world far less attuned to blown music than in Sousa's heyday. The broadcast subtleties of symphonic music and of modern jazz arrangements have eclipsed the concert band. But Conductor Goldman's faith is not shaken. Says he of band music: "I don't believe it's inferior; I just believe it's different...
Died. Dr. John Richard Brinkley, 56, Kansas' goat-bearded "goat-gland" medico-politico; of heart disease; in San Antonio. He exploited the desire of age for youth's potency, peddling a gland emulsion and grafting goat glands at his "rejuvenation clinic" in Milford, Kans. In his heyday he had three yachts, several raudy limousines, decorated himself with diamonds, employed 50 secretaries, took in a reputed $1,000,000 a year. He sold prescriptions over the air from his own radio station, broadcast diagnoses, threw in a little preaching. After Kansas revoked his license to practice...
Died. Marcellus Elliot Foster, 71, crusading Texas editor; in Houston. Founder and for 25 years editor-publisher of the Houston Chronicle (which he sold to Jesse H. Jones in 1926), he fought the Klan when it was in its political heyday in Texas...
Merchants were as happy as the newlyweds. Most important wedding item is the ring, and U.S. jewelers, who get 25% of their annual $525,000,000 business directly from weddings, have been having a heyday. Wholesale wedding ring sales alone were up some 300% for the first three months of the year. Lingerie and wedding-gown makers call the past and present seasons the "most hectic" they have ever known. Formal bridal gown sales, up 250% last year, continue to equal 1941 records. Lingerie merchants, who usually save black lace garments for Christmas sale to men for women, found themselves...
...script which doesn't give them enough chance to go through their dance routines, these two still manage to put on an amazing exhibition whenever they get a chance. When it comes to acting, Miss Hayworth is probably a little less boisterous than Ginger was in her heyday, but in a more serious way she is just as effective. Astaire, as usual, is superb in his dancing scenes, which more than make up for his short-comings as an actor and a singer...