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...shortages are also appearing in the least-skilled jobs. "You drive around and every fast-food restaurant has a HELP WANTED sign hanging in the window," observes Jack Kyser, chief economist at the Los Angeles Economic Development Corp. Such signs also decorate the grocery stores, clothing boutiques and delicatessens filling strip malls across the continent. Not only are high sales creating many new jobs, but employee turnover is enormous. At these levels, says Mitchell Fromstein, CEO of Manpower Inc., the world's largest provider of temporary help, job experience, even the briefest exposure to hamburger flipping, is almost as sought...
...Estate and Capital Inc. recently abandoned plans to build a $1 billion commercial and industrial park in suburban Chicago because the company could not obtain a loan. Even developers in Southern California have been feeling the pinch. "Unless you have a couple of lead tenants signed up," says Jack Kyser, chief economist of the Los Angeles area Chamber of Commerce, "lenders don't want to talk...
Likely Successor. Douglas, who was born Michael Delaney Dowd Jr. in Chicago, prepped as a vocalist on TV's Kay Kyser's Kollege of Musical Knowledge in 1950, and host of an afternoon radio show called Hi, Ladies! In 1961, when the call came to take charge of a new daytime talk show in Cleveland, he was singing in a Los Angeles saloon by night and studying to be a real estate agent...
Died. Edgar Clyde ("Skinnay") Ennis Jr., 55, popular bandleader of the jive-and-jump era, a product of Hal Kemp's offbeat collegiate jazz band at the University of North Carolina in the 1920s (other students: Kay Kyser, John Scott Trotter), who became the big noise nationwide on Bob Hope's radio shows of the 1940s; from choking on a piece of roast beef; in Beverly Hills...
...mother, a pop singer on Boston radio back in the mid-'20s thrust Gloria into big-band singing straight out of high school in 1941. Gloria did solid hitches with Horace Heidt and Kay Kyser, in 1953 made a Capitol record called Hey Bellboy (its only words), which sold nearly 1,000,000 copies. The movies have called on her to provide the voice of many a nonsinging star. She sang for Marilyn Monroe in River of No Return, for Vera-Ellen in White Christmas...