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...Andrews Sisters, bawling, hoydenish Queens of the Juke Box, gave their parents, a Minneapolis Greek restaurateur named Andreos, and their Norwegian mother a whopping 32nd-wedding-anniversary present: one-fourth of the singers' earnings for life. At their present drawing power, the gift amounts to over $100,000 a year. Their first hit in 1937 (Bel Mir Bist Du Schon) sold over 125,000 records; they now get $100,000 annual royalty from Decca for their discs, $10,000 a week average for personal appearances...
Central America's heady unrest swept into Nicaragua, rippled ominously around the white hilltop palace of Dictator Anastasio Somoza. In his spacious office, flanked by two ack-ack guns, a grand piano and a juke box, shrewd "Tacho" Somoza might well wonder if the jig were up. For seven years he had been Central America's most genial, least bloodthirsty dictator. But he had made all Nicaragua his racket, with opéra-bouffe trimmings. He had justified his record with a plaintive: "Godammit, I want to make sure that my family has enough to live on after...
Died. Fred L. Mills, 49, juke-box developer, president of Mills Industries, Inc. of Chicago (slot, pinball, vending machinery), onetime partner of James Roosevelt in juke-box movies; of a stomach ailment; in St. Charles...
Rose's U.S. idiom is consistently accurate: "Back in your old home town, remember the old juke box and what you got out of it? Remember the cheese sandwiches and the cokes with the gang? It's pretty hard to remember, but your juke box once had this piece: Crosstown [music]. . . . And whenever that came out of the juke box, somebody started an impromptu rumba and boy, did the manager kick. But that was only when your mood was good, whether it was the moon, the coke, or the girl...
...Gonna Give Nobody None of My Jelly Roll." (Rest assured, though--no vocals, no rhumbas, no waltzes, not even "I Got Rhythm"). After all, anybody can turn on the radio and get "Mares Eat Oats" or "Sunday, Monday and Always." Or you can dance to "Paper Doll" from juke joint to $1.50 cover without any trouble (aside from $.90 for a week highball). But it's the hardest thing in the world to find any place that will serve you. "Tin Roof Blues,' "Original Dixieland One Step," and "Fidgety-Feet," especially with chummy program notes...