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Hulking alongside his dad at the microphone, Gary chimed in on a ragtime duet called Play a Simple Melody, written by Irving Berlin back in 1914. He had some of the old man's verve, if not much of the voice. Decca Records' Dave Kapp heard it, last month got the Crosbys, father & son, to do a repeat in front of a recording mike. By last week, Play a Simple Melody -with its companion piece, Sam's Song-was a runaway bestseller: more than 300,000 records had been sold in less than three weeks...
Staff members announced by Miss Evans include Frances Bonnanno '50, managing editor; Janet Kapp '50, business manager; Elizabeth Pickles '50, advertising manager; Cynthia Sweeney '50, circulation manager; Mary Grimley '50, literary editor. Enid Trinkle '50, photography editor; Sally Cahill '50, senior editor; Georgian Davis '51, club editor; Pauline Rosen '51, junior class representative; Claire Ham '50, commuter representative; and Dorothy Waelder, Dolores Heffernan, Nancy Shea, Marjorie Mackintosh, and Helen Valacellis, all '53, Freshman representatives. No sophomore appointment has been made to date...
...Beta Kapp's current membership consists of: George R. Bird '49, Nathanlel Cohen '49, Richard H. Cromwell '49, Jack Durell '49, George Elseman '49, Walter S. Frank '49, Roy F. Gootenberg '49, Charles M. Gray '49, Ralph Gross '49, Antonio G. Haas '44, David G. Hughes '47, Immanuel I. Kohn '48, Thomas F. O'Dea '50, Irwin Opponheim '49, Horbert J. Spre '50, John M. Teem...
Died. Jack Kapp, 47, president and founder (1934) of Decca Records, Inc.; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Manhattan. Kapp combined a shrewd eye for business (Decca was the first to make 35? records on a large scale) with a sharp ear for talent (he signed Bing Crosby, the Mills Brothers, Al Jolson, the Dorseys), to boom Decca, by 1946, into a $30 million-a-year business...
Choral--Barbara Connolly '49, president; Marilyn Mattson '49, vice president; Mildred Blacklock '50, secretary; Janet Kapp '50, treasurer...