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...nine pro tournaments between 1940 and 1959, was runner-up in the U.S. Open, the P.G.A. and the Masters. He put the first golf club in Frank Sinatra's hands, tutored Joe Louis, Adlai Stevenson ("Short but straight as a string"), Rocky Marciano, Eddie Cantor, Al Jolson, Eddie Arcaro, and Sophie Tucker ("Anybody with a pair of hands like that...
...entirely unbiased) that subscription television may destroy free television operation. In the final analysis, it would appear the charges here made [against pay TV] could have been made by the radio industry when television was made available for the home and by the producers of silent pictures when Al Jolson sang in The Jazz Singer. Invention and progress may not and should not be so restricted...
...Scott through her insane envy of his talent by convincing him that he was sexually inadequate. Hemingway claims that he realized she was insane long before Fitzgerald was forced to accept the fact. As evidence, he cites the time that Zelda asked him: "Don't you think Al Jolson is greater than Jesus?" Perhaps the lost generation was not really lost after all, merely mislaid...
...stroke; in his Manhattan penthouse atop Sardi's 44th Street restaurant. In the partnership, Older Brother Sam was the producer and Middle Brother Lee the businessman; "J.J." touched both sides of the business, playing backer to Florenz Ziegfeld, producing more than 500 shows, and sending Eddie Cantor, Al Jolson, Marilyn Miller and Bert Lahr on their way to stardom. Until 1956, when the U.S. Government settled an antitrust suit, the Shuberts controlled half of all U.S. legitimate theaters; the business (24 theaters in Manhattan and four other cities) is still worth an estimated $50 million, and two days before...
Monday, October 28 HOLLYWOOD AND THE STARS (NBC, 9:30-10 p.m.). The career of Al Jolson...