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Conductor Paige chose his 75 Young Americans from 2,000 applicants. Their ages range from 17 to 26, average under 21. His tuba player was a janitor; a trombonist, a truck driver; a violinist, a housemaid; the concertmaster, a welterweight boxer. Songster for the Young Americans is Carolyn Cromwell, redhaired, 19-year-old Kansan. The orchestra has already made its first recordings; when RCA Victor's Music Director Charles O'Connell heard the Young Americans rehearsing, he put them under five-year contract. Because a radio sponsor is eyeing them, the Young Americans have made only one concert...
...trial balloon in hand, prowling the unexplored bushes of public opinion, whipping up sentiment pro or con whatever the President has decided the U.S. should be for or against. He is the Whipping Boy who takes the blame whenever anything goes wrong. He is the New Deal's Janitor, who cleans out the goboons and sweeps up the floor (usually using some victim as the broom). He captains the Purity Squad that keeps his colleagues honest. He is the Public Executioner, the Court Poisoner and the Bouncer. In short, if there is on the docket a hard, nasty, grinding...
...weekly paper, ≤≤ Charles ("Mickey) Norman, who hit the front pages for his cigar smoking when he was 14 months old, turned ten. "I don't hardly smoke cigars at all any more," he said. "They stink." ≤≤ Nathalia Crane, onetime prodigy poet (The Janitor's Boy, 1924), won a scholarship to enter Fordham's School of Education. Now 28, she wants to be a schoolteacher...
Throughout all journalism's history. Jimmy is the only janitor ever to become a columnist in a single day. In the spring of 1921, broke, he answered a News want ad for a copy boy who would sweep out on Sundays. On his first Sunday at work, Phil Payne, then city editor, asked him who he was, recognized his name as a famed footballer, gave him the Inquiring Fotographer assignment. The column was a transplanted Chicago Tribune feature, but it had always been assigned more or less at random to a staff writer accompanied by a cameraman, and Jimmy...
Died. Lou Gehrig, 38, "Iron Man of Baseball"; in Manhattan. Stricken two years ago with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (hardening of the spinal cord), the great, clean-living, slugging Yankee first baseman, son of a German-born janitor, had hung up the all-round record of baseball: 2,130 consecutive games (for 14 years he played in every Yankee game); more than 100 runs a year; a lifetime batting average...