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...with Swing Fiddler Joe Venuti's band, wandering across the U.S. on deadly one-night stands. Then Jazzman Charlie Barnet put her up against his nine brasses. "I pay for 'em," Charlie used to roar, "and I want to hear 'em." After two years of shouting, Kay Starr's voice broke down...
...promoted municipally financed concerts in Grant Park. In 1939 he expressed his gratitude for this largesse with a concert honoring Mayor Kelly. In so doing he gave a dramatic demonstration of his own power. At his "suggestion," 23 band leaders, among them Paul Whiteman, Fred Waring, Tommy Dorsey and Kay Kyser, brought their orchestras to Chicago at their own expense. The concert orchestras of the National, Columbia and Mutual broadcasting systems came...
...Paris, Miss Paris of 1947 - a leggy actress named Kay Trevil - declared that Americans had "more character" than Frenchmen, said she would sail for the U.S. this week to marry the credit manager of a clothing store in Columbus, Ohio...
...stimulating announcement that the talent for the forthcoming Smoker may run from Mayor Curley to Greta Garbo, the Freshman Affairs Committee is harking back to the whoop-de-do that marked the spirited festivals of the past. The razzle-dazzle that teased through the years with Sally Rand, Beatrice Kay and Jinx Falkenberg, was conceived in an all-or-nothing spirit that merited E pennants for entertainment. Eagerly anticipating upperclass status with a yell and a holler, all Freshmen banded together to throw their shackles into the Charles and emerge with the Biggest Show Ever. They balked only...
Married. Katharine ("Kay") Winthrop, 33, blueblooded Boston tennist (women's national indoor singles champion in 1944); and Massachusetts Sportsman Quincy A Shaw McKean, 57; she for the first time, he for the second; in Manhattan...