Word: jo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...girl the U.S. would soon be hearing about. Her record of I'm the Lonesomest Gal in Town has already sold more than 100,000 copies in three months. And Capitol Records, which seems to know when it has something (it also has such top girl singers as Jo Stafford, Margaret Whiting and Peggy Lee), had recorded 24 songs by Kay before the Petrillo...
Homebody. In Los Angeles, Mary Jo Gilt won an annulment when she complained that John Gilt had married her just to get her apartment, then locked her out the day after the wedding...
...TIME, July 7) was the top song of the year. But the biggest record-seller was Francis Craig's tinkling Near You, which skyrocketed a dime-a-dozen record company (Bullet) into the big money. Top-selling bands on records: Vaughn Monroe and Ted Weems. Among girl singers, Jo Stafford, for her mock hillbilly disc of Timtayshun, rated twice as high in hit-tune sales as Dinah Shore. Perry Como was easily the top record-seller among the crooners. Most surprising fadeout of the year: Frank Sinatra, who wasn't even listed among Billboard's eight...
Most gawked-at conferee: 21-year-old Barbara Jo Walker, a Memphis Sunday-school teacher who also happens to be Miss America of 1947. Fellow delegates hung on her every good word. Typical was a freckle-faced Kentuckian who fell into step beside her as she was leaving one of the meetings. "You're so important and all," he said, "I was wondering what you think is the big job we boys and girls have to face up to." Replied beautiful Barbara Jo: "I think we've got to find a way to lasting peace...
They labored against heavy odds: in an age of disappearing palaces and severely plain public buildings, there is little incentive for carving statues. Except for a handful of men like Jo Davidson, who get fancy commissions for portraits, monuments and fountains, nobody makes big money these days out of sculpturing...